Articles | Volume 17, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11467-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11467-2017
Research article
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27 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 27 Sep 2017

Physical and chemical properties of deposited airborne particulates over the Arabian Red Sea coastal plain

Johann P. Engelbrecht, Georgiy Stenchikov, P. Jish Prakash, Traci Lersch, Anatolii Anisimov, and Illia Shevchenko

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Desert dust has a profound impact on peoples health, visibility, damage to equipment, and global climate. This research is on dust from the Arabian Peninsula and aims at collecting and analyzing mineralogical, physical, and chemical composition of dust deposits from the atmosphere at the KAUST campus along the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. The results will be used to assess the input of nutrients to the Red Sea, and will support dust modeling in the Middle East.
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