Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-199-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-199-2015
Research article
 | 
12 Jan 2015
Research article |  | 12 Jan 2015

The impact of dust storms on the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea

P. Jish Prakash, G. Stenchikov, S. Kalenderski, S. Osipov, and H. Bangalath

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by JISHPRAKASH PUTHAN PURAKKAL on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2014)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Oct 2014) by Craig McNeil
AR by JISHPRAKASH PUTHAN PURAKKAL on behalf of the Authors (03 Nov 2014)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Nov 2014) by Craig McNeil
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (17 Nov 2014)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (26 Nov 2014) by Craig McNeil
AR by JISHPRAKASH PUTHAN PURAKKAL on behalf of the Authors (02 Dec 2014)  Author's response    Manuscript
Download
Short summary
This study aims to quantify the effect of severe dust events on radiation fluxes and regional climate characteristics over the Arabian Peninsula. We simulated the storm that occurred from 18 to 20 March 2012 and swept over a remarkably large area affecting the entire Middle East, North-Eastern Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. We estimate that this storm generated over 94 Mt of dust and deposited approximately 1.2 Mt of dust into the Red Sea, bringing nutrients to marine ecosystems.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint