🌍 Every year, around 2,000 million tons of dust enters the atmosphere, darkening skies and harming air quality in regions that can be thousands of kilometers away, and affecting economies, ecosystems, weather and climate. Much of this is a natural process, but a large part of it is the result of poor water and land management. 📈 Monitoring and forecasting accuracy has improved in recent years due to the progress of numerical models and observation systems. The WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS), set up in 2007, strives to improve warnings through dedicated regional centres and combines research and operational work. 🌾 It is not all bad news. The long-range transport of sand and dust across oceans is also a valuable source of nutrients and important for the international management of fisheries. 🗣️ #SDSDay
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This is a stark reminder of the interconnectedness of our planet. The impact of sand and dust storms extends far beyond their origin. It's essential to invest in research and monitoring to protect vulnerable populations and ecosystems.
Very informative
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3wAll the experts who were involved in the preparation and writing of this report should be tried according to the law in the future. Previously, these illiterate experts have officially announced many times that Sahara dust storms play a vital role in this ecosystem as food for the Amazon rain trees. I have warned these scientists many times in these twelve years and even the most prominent research centers have repeated these scientific mistakes. Now we see that the Amazon is drying up and forest fires have become a daily occurrence in many parts of the northern hemisphere. Also, unfortunately, the green continent passed the first stage of desertification and entered the third stage of its natural suffocation cycle, and the blood concentration of the people of the European Union increases every day through the breathing of these invisible pollutants. The depth of these disasters lies in the fact that instead of talking about the behavioral physics of type 2 and 3 aerosols in Sahara dust storms and the destructive role they have on the world's ecosystem, they are happy to provide food to the animals of the seas and oceans! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cqsI5qHeBQ https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/12/601/2021/