in this research, elemental and chemical characteristics of atmospheric dust particulates including major and trace elements in two synoptic meteorological stations (abadan and urmia cities) during dust events and ambient periods have been evaluated. results showed that during dust events to ambient periods in both stations, major elements including ca, mg, al and trace elements comprised p and...

The presence of dust on the snowpack accelerates snowmelt. This has been observed through and hydrometeorological measurements at a small study watershed in southwestern Colorado. For 13-year period, we quantified annual dust-enhanced energy absorption (DEAE) used this information to model melt-out under (with present) clean conditions (no dust). We determine difference snow cover duration betw...

This study investigates the microphysical sensitivity of an orogenic thunderstorm during Genoa 1992 flood event to the concentration and solubility of nucleating aerosols. Idealized 2-D simulations with a new microphysical scheme and a cloud resolving model showed the solubility of CCN can be as important as their concentration. High solubility cases of CCN led to less accumulation of precipita...

House dust has been suspected as a source of lead in the exposure of children, particularly those whose blood lead levels are in the moderately elevated range. The means by which household surface lead accumulates is at present not clear. By towel wipe sampling, 24 vacant houses in urban Rochester and Buffalo, New York, were examined for lead content on windowsills, floors, and other surfaces. ...

BACKGROUND Agricultural workers are exposed to airborne pollutants, including organic and inorganic (mineral) dusts. OBJECTIVES Lung autopsy specimens from consecutive coroner's cases of Hispanic males in Fresno County, California, (n = 112) were obtained to determine whether mineral dust exposure in agricultural work leads to pneumoconiosis. METHODS The left lung was fixed by inflation. We...

Chronic exposure to coalmine dust is associated with the accumulation of inflammatory leukocytes in the bronchoalveolar region of the lung and, in the long term, with fibrosis and emphysema of the lung parenchyma. Degradation of connective tissue by inflammatory leukocytes has been implicated in the parenchymal damage that precedes the development of fibrotic or emphysematous lesions in the lun...

The causal role of wood-dust exposure in sinonasal cancer (SNC) has been established in epidemiological studies, but the mechanisms of SNC carcinogenesis are still largely unknown. Increased amounts of COX-2 are found in both premalignant and malignant tissues, and experimental evidence link COX-2 to development of cancer. Many signals that activate COX-2 also induce tumor suppressor p53, a tra...