Genesis of a Severe Dust Storm Over the Indian Subcontinent: Dynamics and Impacts

Singh, Jaydeep; Singh, Narendra; Ojha, Narendra; Srivastava, Atul; Bisht, D. S.; Rajeev, K.; Kumar, Nishant; Singh, Ravi S.; Panwar, Vivek; Dhaka, S. K.; Kumar, V. S. Senthil; Nakayama, Tomoki; Matsumi, Yutaka; Hayoshida, Sachiko; Dimri, A. P.

doi:10.1029/2021ea001702

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“…They are also found to cause increasing asthma-related emergencies in different parts of the world, such as, Trinidad and Tobago (Griffin et al, 2001;Gyan et al, 2005;Monteil, 2008), Mediterranean region (18), Caribbean (19,20), West Africa (21), Italy (22), Cyprus (23), Greece (24) and overall Europe (11). Dust from the Thar Desert of India, and Margo Desert of Pakistan/ Afghanistan, have shown a negative impact on the Himalayan ecology (25)(26)(27)(28) apart from contributing extensively to environmental pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (26,27,29).…”

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Yes, dust storms can possibly be forecasted now!!

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A unique approach of a well-established Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDWI) method is established to build the forecasting framework of dust storms. This method is successfully used for forecasting wildfire incidences. The approach calculates the likelihood of a dust storm by postulating that it arises from a synergistic interplay of elevated temperatures, arid atmospheric conditions, and powerful winds, similar to the conditions that are necessary for a wildfire occurrence. The approach has been effectively evaluated for eight distinct dust storm events that took place in important desert places around the world. The results regularly shown its capacity to precisely determine the source of dust storms within a limited time frame. The proposed strategy provides a multitude of advantages compared to other alternatives currently suggested for the same objective.

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