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Differing meteorological conditions that supply sufficient momentum to the surface to sustain wind erosion are organized with respect to the ratio of boundary layer height to Monin-Obukof length, L. Conditions for large-scale dust storms include strong surface heating and a strong upper level momentum source.
Visibility is related to mass concentration by an equation MV = C, where visibility, C, is a constant and M is the mass concentration of dust in the air. Different studies of visibility versus dust concentration are related to distance from the source region.
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Gillette, D.A. (1986). Dust Production by Wind Erosion: Necessary Conditions and Estimates of Vertical Fluxes of Dust and Visibility Reduction by Dust. In: El-Baz, F., Hassan, M.H.A. (eds) Physics of desertification. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4388-9_25
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