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The Role of the Intertropical Discontinuity Region and the Heat Low in Dust Emission and Transport Over the Thar Desert, India: A Premonsoon Case Study
Author(s) -
Dumka U. C.,
Kaskaoutis D. G.,
Francis D.,
Chaboureau J.P.,
Rashki A.,
Tiwari Suresh,
Singh Sachchidanand,
Liakakou E.,
Mihalopoulos N.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: atmospheres
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2169-8996
pISSN - 2169-897X
DOI - 10.1029/2019jd030836
Subject(s) - intertropical convergence zone , dust storm , storm , monsoon , discontinuity (linguistics) , environmental science , convergence zone , south asia , geology , atmospheric sciences , climatology , geography , meteorology , precipitation , mathematical analysis , mathematics , ethnology , history
Key Points Satellite observations and Meso‐NH model simulations are used to investigate an intense dust storm over north India in June 2018 Dust is mostly confined below 2 km in the monsoon flow over the Thar desert, northwest India and at ~3 km along the Ganges Valley The dust was accumulated in an arc‐shaped cloud in the convergence zone between the southwesterlies and the northwesterlies: the ITD