Abstract
Wind-blown (or aeolian) dust emissions of arid/semi-arid areas contribute about 1–3 billion tons to the global atmospheric mineral dust load. The Sahara Desert is responsible for more than 50% of the global dust emissions, as well as the dust storms, which reach Europe. This research focuses on two such dust events which occurred in January and April 2018 and aims to identify the possible source areas of those dust storms using geological methods and HYSPLIT application. The intensity of the discussed dust events can be explained by the unusual stationary behavior of major pressure systems and blocking mechanisms.
Keywords
- Siliciclastics
- Sediments
- Laser diffraction
- X-ray powder diffraction
- Automated static image analysis
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Sahara
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Kovács, A., Varga, G., Gammoudi, N., Kovács, J. (2022). Granulometric, Mineralogical, and HYSPLIT Analysis of Siliciclastic Sediments Derived from Sahara. In: , et al. New Prospects in Environmental Geosciences and Hydrogeosciences. CAJG 2019. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72543-3_14
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