Saharan dust (also African dust, yellow dust, yellow sand, yellow wind or Sahara dust storms) is an aeolian mineral dust from the Sahara, the largest hot desert in the world.

2023年7月20日 · Sahara dust, a mass cloud of fine particulate matter, hit the U.S. on Wednesday, affecting Florida. Here's what that means and what you need to know about health impacts.

2024年6月26日 · The state of Texas is bracing for a Saharan dust outbreak, as large plumes travel northward from the African desert and move over the Atlantic. The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is the dust that...

2022年6月3日 · Winds pick up an estimated 100 million tons of dust from the Sahara Desert each year, and a sizable portion of it blows out over the North Atlantic Ocean. A fresh supply of dust was airlifted from the Sahara in early June 2022, and some of …

2016年3月23日 · To elucidate the role of African dust in the climate system, it is necessary to understand the factors governing its emission and transport.

Satellite measurements indicate intensive plumes of dust, called the Saharan Air Layer, across much of the eastern Atlantic. Traces of dust have even made the more than 4,000-mile journey...

2020年6月24日 · These clouds of dust make up one of the greatest annual migrations on the planet—not animal, but mineral. It begins in the Sahara, where wind storms levitate enormous plumes of desert dust...

2016年3月23日 · More than half of the dust deposited in the oceans originates in North Africa. This Saharan dust affects the climate: among other things, it contains nutrients that fertilize both land and...

to identify microbes-bacteria, fungi, viruses-transported across the Atlantic in African soil dust. Each year, mil lions of tons of desert dust blow off the west Aftican coast and ride the trade winds across the ocean, affecting the entire Caribbean basin, as well as the southeastern United States.

2023年12月4日 · African desert dust is emitted and long-range transported with multiple effects on climate, air quality, cryosphere, and ecosystems. On 21–23 February 2021, dust from a sand and dust storm in...