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Monitoring the impact of desert dust outbreaks for air quality for health studies.
Review in Environment international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 236 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Desert Sand and Dust Storms and Desert Dust Episodes: Major Patterns to be Accounted for to Protect the Health of Exposed Population: A Review.ACS ES&T air · 2025Review
- Influence of Saharan Dust Intrusions on Respiratory Medication Dispensing.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Air Pollution and Global Pediatric Pneumococcal Disease.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Preliminary findings from a pilot moss biomonitoring study in the Patagonia region.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Radioactive contamination transported to Western Europe with Saharan dust.Science advances · 2025Article
- Sand and dust storms: a growing global health threat calls for international health studies to support policy action.The Lancet. Planetary health · 2025Review
- Interactions among tuberculosis, geographic environment and aerosols: evidence from the Kashgar region of China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Physicochemical Properties and Bioreactivity of Sub-10 μm Geogenic Particles: Comparison of Volcanic Ash and Desert Dust.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- Respirable Metals, Bacteria, and Fungi during a Saharan-Sahelian Dust Event in Houston, Texas.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Clean air in Europe for all! Taking stock of the proposed revision to the ambient air quality directives: a joint ERS, HEI and ISEE workshop report.The European respiratory journal · 2023Article
- Infrared optical signature reveals the source-dependency and along-transport evolution of dust mineralogy as shown by laboratory study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- High-resolution patterns and inequalities in ambient fine particle mass (PMThe Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Exposure Assessment of Ambient PM2.5 Levels during a Sequence of Dust Episodes: A Case Study Coupling the WRF-Chem Model with GIS-Based Postprocessing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Ambient Air Quality Standards and Policies in Eastern Mediterranean Countries: A Review.International journal of public health · 2023Review
- Coupling Sr-Nd-Hf Isotope Ratios and Elemental Analysis to Accurately Quantify North African Dust Contributions to PMEnvironmental science & technology · 2022Article
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12 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
We review the major features of desert dust outbreaks that are relevant to the assessment of dust impacts upon human health. Our ultimate goal is to provide scientific guidance for the acquisition of relevant population exposure information for epidemiological studies tackling the short and long term health effects of desert dust. We first describe the source regions and the typical levels of dust particles in regions close and far away from the source areas, along with their size, composition, and bio-aerosol load. We then describe the processes by which dust may become mixed with anthropogenic particulate matter (PM) and/or alter its load in receptor areas. Short term health effects are found during desert dust episodes in different regions of the world, but in a number of cases the results differ when it comes to associate the effects to the bulk PM, the desert dust-PM, or non-desert dust-PM. These differences are likely due to the different monitoring strategies applied in the epidemiological studies, and to the differences on atmospheric and emission (natural and anthropogenic) patterns of desert dust around the world. We finally propose methods to allow the discrimination of health effects by PM fraction during dust outbreaks, and a strategy to implement desert dust alert and monitoring systems for health studies and air quality management.
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