Saharan dust emissions and transports are sensitive to weather and climate conditions in the source regions. Dense dust clouds reduce the ocean surface exposure to sunlight, hence, reducing the ocean surface heating and therefore influencing the air-sea transfer of water vapor and latent heat, which are critical to climate. [70]

Jul 20, 2023 · Sahara dust, a mass cloud of fine particulate matter, hit the U.S. on Wednesday, affecting Florida. Here's what that means and what you need to know about health impacts.

A massive cloud of Sahara Desert dust particles is affecting air quality in the Gulf of Mexico and southern U.S. Monday after traveling thousands of miles over the Atlantic Ocean from Africa.

What are Saharan dust clouds? Every year during the summer, large amounts of dust are lifted off of the Saharan Desert in northern Africa and float west over the Atlantic Ocean and into the Caribbean, eastern US, and Europe (image below).

Jul 13, 2020 · Dr. Meredith McCormack, Associate Professor of Medicine & Medical Director of Pulmonary Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and volunteer medical spokesperson for the American Lung Association explained what this means for our lungs and what we can do to combat the effects of this deadly dust cloud.

Feb 22, 2015 · But after strong winds sweep across the Sahara, a tan cloud rises in the air, stretches between the continents, and ties together the desert and the jungle. It’s dust. And lots of it. For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions how much dust makes this trans-Atlantic journey.

Jul 15, 2005 · A continent-sized cloud of hot air and dust originating from the Sahara Desert crossed the Atlantic Ocean and headed towards Florida and the Caribbean. A Saharan Air Layer, or SAL, forms when dry air and dust rise from Africa's west coast and ride the trade winds above the Atlantic Ocean.

Jun 26, 2020 · A massive plume of dust from the Sahara desert in northern Africa has been traversing the atmosphere, thousands of feet above the tropical Atlantic Ocean, and is now cloaking the Caribbean and...

Sep 24, 2021 · Saharan dust storms — massive clouds of wind-blown sand and silt from the surface of the Sahara Desert — also journey across the Atlantic, sprinkling over 180 million tons of mineral-rich Saharan...

Jun 30, 2020 · The Saharan dust plume is a supersized version of ones that cross the Atlantic all the time, ferrying particles that irritate lungs but also fertilize plant and ocean life.