Tom Gill
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Dust Tweeter! Professor/Scientist @UTEP educator, futurist,Predictor,humorist,human rights defender,thoughtprovoker #aerosols #drylands #aeolian #DisabledInSTEM
El Paso, Texas & Planet Earth
Joined December 2010
RT @WED_explorer: #Wildfire smoke from #Portugal & #Spain drifts toward North #Africa, while #SaharanDust surges back across Iberia & #Fran….
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Featherweight flyers could ‘levitate’ above Earth indefinitely | Science | AAAS
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Making use of an obscure physics effect to fly, devices could probe the upper atmosphere and explore Mars
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Yao et al., Remote Sensing: Attribution and Risk Assessment of Wind Erosion in the Aral Sea Regions Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing and RWEQ on GEE.
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The rapid desiccation of the Aral Sea has transformed the region into one of the world’s most severe soil wind-erosion hotspots. Despite growing concern, long-term, high-resolution assessments and...
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Tang et al., ATMENV: Interdecadal Feature and Mechanism of Global Dusty Weather.
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RT @WED_explorer: This #satellite image shows a massive #DustStorm across central #Iraq, blanketing regions from Ninawa to #Baghdad. The de….
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RT @BenNollWeather: Sunrise over Erin on Friday as the storm is chased by a veil of Saharan dust.
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RT @RyanMaue: Tropical Storm Erin is a "dirty storm" with dust surrounding the system -- blown off Africa days ago. However, deep convect….
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RT @WED_explorer: Thick smoke from #wildfires🔥 in #Portugal and #Spain drifts west toward the Atlantic. Dense gray plumes show intense burn….
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Lots of post-fire ash-dust emission today in the Gifford Fire burn scar as winds blew across burned area. You can see a small dust plume on the far right of this @ALERTCalifornia image showing the dust haze (it's not smoke there).
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Guebsi and Chokmani, Remote Sensing: Effects of Large- and Meso-Scale Circulation on Uprising Dust over Bodélé in June 2006 and June 2011
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This study investigates the effects of key atmospheric features on mineral dust emissions and transport in the Sahara–Sahel region, focusing on the Bodélé Depression, during June 2006 and 2011. We...
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LeGrand et al., US Army ERDC Technical Report: A revised landform map for areas prone to dust emission in the Southwestern United States.
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Five years ago today I dreamed that pirates went out to sea to avoid woodpeckers pecking their wooden legs.
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Strange signals from Antarctica: the mystery deepens.
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After a dedicated search found no evidence of exotic particles traveling through the planet, the mystery of Antarctica's "impossible" signals only deepens.
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Gifford Fire is looking rather volcanic this afternoon. View from Cuesta Peak 2 @ALERTCalifornia webcam.
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Wang et al., GRL: Slowdown of Dune Migration in East Asia's Inland Deserts: A 35‐Year Response to Wind Stilling
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A decline in near-surface wind speeds in East Asia's inland deserts from 1986 to 2021 has reduced barchan migration rate and sand transport Sand transport models often underestimate sand flux due...
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Yao et al., J. Environmental Sci.: Revealing the evolution of aerosols in Asian dust events: Insights from their microphysical and elemental characteristics.
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RT @NWSElPaso: Photo of the haboob/ dust storm that went through western New Mexico from the Arizona side earlier this evening.
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Thank you Mother Nature! .To wrap up my latest trip around the sun, El Paso was sent a brief haboob tonight before the deluge hit. That's Dust Day 48 for the year. #txwx.
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RT @NWSElPaso: DANGEROUS SITUATION ALONG I-10 ALONG THE LORDSBURG PLAYA!!! ZERO VISIBILITY! Pull over. Stay Alive! This is an image from a….
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