Scientific Program

Three days for exhibiting scientific research based on:
  • field measurements,
  • modelling
  • experiments

will be presented as oral presentation and posters.

Program

Sessions of the dustworkshop 9  focuses on:

DUST AND CLIMATE INTERACTIONS

  • Composition, mineralogy, size, solubility
  • Dust processing, aging and change in properties
  • Ice nuclei
  • Radiation and clouds
  • Deposition into the ocean
  • Biogeochemical cycles
  • Effects and feedbacks – weather and climate

DUST SOURCES AND VARIABILITY

  • Natural dust sources
  • Anthropogenic dust sources
  • Emerging dust sources
  • Forecast and data assimilation
  • Short range, medium range forecasting and reanalyses

DUST IMPACTS

  • Air quality
  • Health effects
  • Solar energy production
  • Effects on agriculture