Abstract. The suggestion of Huang et al. (2015) on the climatological-scale transport Asian dust to Arctic appears be an important and worthwhile assertion. It is unfortunate that authors undermined, a certain degree, quality assertion by misinterpretation critical 24 March 2010​​​​​​​ event (which was chosen illustrate their generalized, claim). They attempted characterize key using AERONET/AE...

Subjective thermal sensation of late teenagers was examined aiming to reveal potential discrepancies in its estimation compared to adults. Since teenagers have different clothing habits and preferences from adults, it is important to know whether the conclusions reached by studies on thermal sensation, usually involving adults, can be also applied to teenagers. A group of late teenagers was int...

[1] Airborne mineral dust can influence the climate by altering the radiative properties of the atmosphere, but the magnitude of the effect is uncertain. An idealized global model is developed to study the dust-climate system. The model determines the dust longwave and shortwave direct radiative forcing, as well as the resulting temperature changes, based on the specified dust distribution, hei...

Torrential rainfall and rapid snowmelt in April 2017 caused deadly floods northwestern Iran. An atmospheric river (AR), propagating across the Middle East North Africa, was found responsible for this extreme event. The triggered by precipitation warm advection associated with AR. Total satellite-based moderately below normal, suggesting that a heavy flood can happen during dry years. AR fed moi...

The atmospheric dispersion of bacteria over long distances is an important facet of microbial ecology. Certain groups of dispersed bacteria can adapt to their new location and affect established ecosystems. Aeolian dust particles are known to be carriers of microbes but further research is needed to expand our understanding of this field of microbiology. Here we showed the potential of aeolian ...

BACKGROUND Air pollution has become a major global public health problem. A number of studies have confirmed the association between air pollutants and emergency room (ER) visits for respiratory diseases in developed countries and some Asian countries, but little evidence has been seen in Western China. This study aims to concentrate on this region. METHODS A time-series analysis was used to ...

Soiling is the accumulation of dust on solar panels that causes a decrease in optical efficiencies of CSP systems. However, geographically widespread data is only available for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. The changes in efficiency of a large commercial site (86.4 kWdc) was quantified during the summer dry period over the course of 2010 with respect to rain events observed at a nearby weath...

The atmospheric movement of arid soil can play an important role in the movement of microorganisms attached to soil microparticles. Bacterial community structures in Asian dust collected at Beijing were investigated using the 16S rRNA gene sequence and compared to those in arid soil, a possible source of the dust. Asian dust samples contained 2.5×10(7) to 3.5×10(9) copies of the 16S rRNA gene g...

BACKGROUND Dust events have long been recognized to be associated with a higher mortality risk. However, no study has investigated how prolonged dust events affect the spatial variability of mortality across districts in a downwind city. METHODS In this study, we applied a spatial regression approach to estimate the district-level mortality during two extreme dust events in Hong Kong. We comp...