ArticleGeoHealth2023
When a Dust Storm Is Not a Dust Storm: Reliability of Dust Records From the Storm Events Database and Implications for Geohealth Applications.
Article in GeoHealth, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Times Matter, the Impact of Convective Dust Events on Air Quality in the Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- Aeolian sediment in El Paso, Texas: Elevated desert sand deposition rates and dust concentrations, enhanced by drought and urban sources.Atmospheric environment (Oxford, England : 1994) · 2025Article
- Dust Under the Radar: Rethinking How to Evaluate the Impacts of Dust Events on Air Quality in the United States.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Evaluating Data Product Exposure Metrics for Use in Epidemiologic Studies of Dust Storms.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- When a Dust Storm Is Not a Dust Storm: Reliability of Dust Records From the Storm Events Database and Implications for Geohealth Applications.GeoHealth · 2023Article
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Abstract
Windblown dust impacts human health, air quality, and climate. The National Weather Service Storm Events Database (SED) is a widely used dataset of significant or unusual weather, including dust storms (DS), and resulting deaths, injuries, and material losses in the USA. The SED is frequently used by medical, social, and atmospheric scientists. However, it is uncertain whether this dataset reliably represents spatial and temporal variations and trends of DS. Analyzing the SED from 2000 to 2020 identified 1,167 DS reports; removing reports of the same event from multiple locations left 647 DS in 21 USA states. The number of DS ranged from 12 in 2008 to 53 in 2018, with no strong interannual trends detected (
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