A History of African Dust Transport Across North Atlantic
UM led study chronicles the important research on African dust transport across North Atlantic. In a recently published paper, a research team, led by University…
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Mesoscale Convective Weather System Sends Massive African Dust Cloud Into Europe
The dust storm traveled from Algeria to Italy, spanning roughly 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). On June 22, 2021, the Moderate Resolution imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on…
Asteroid Dust Could Shield Earth From Harmful Solar Radiation
Scottish scientists have proposed to use a giant space-based dust cloud, blasted off an asteroid, to shade the Earth from the sun. Deliberately manipulating the…