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دراسة العواصف الغبارية في العراق باستخدام بيانات مؤشر الهباء الجوي == Study of Dust Storm Sources using Aerosols Index Data
Author name:
دعاء عبد الامير حميد
Supervisor name:
قيس جميل الجميلي
General topic:
Meteorology
Specific topic:
Atmospheric Sciences
Degree:
Master
University:
Mustansiriyah University - College Of Science - Department Of Atmospheric Sciences
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
32T72 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Dust storms are common and frequently phenomena in Iraq and can occur any time during the year but most likely during spring and summer months. Numerous research papers indicated that the most important regions of origin for dust storms are those located inwestern plateau, near Iraq - Syria borders, and sedimentary plain, specially regions close to the city of Nasiriyah and the south western region close to the borders with Saudi Arabia.The aim of this research is to investigate the changes in those regions by analysing the aerosols index data for the period of 2003 to 2012.The data used in this work consist the monthly means of aerosols index measured by satellites. The data were obtained from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) as grids with resolution of 1ox1.25o latitude - longitude bins for the entire globe. Toobtain the grids that represent the Iraqi regions and extract data for selected cities, Fortran programs were designed for this purpose. The monthly means were used to calculate the annual means and anomalies for both monthly an annual means. The results showed that the aerosols index values for northern and western (near the borders with Jordan) regions were among the lowest values compared with the other regions. The highest values of the index occurred in the regions of origin of dust stormsand in the sedimentary plain as a consequence of the Shamal wind which transport aerosols particles from their sources to the south and south eastern regions towards the Arabian Gulf. The results also showed the highest values of the aerosols index occurred during spring and summer months since the Shamal wind is more active during these months.The anomalies of the monthly and annual means indicated the presence of changes in the region of origin of dust storms and other regions of Iraq on yearly bases. These changes might have occurred due to the variability of rainfall. The histograms of the monthly means of the aerosols index illustrated that most frequent high values of the index occurred during the month of june for all cities except Rutba where the most frequent values occurred during the month of May.The city of Basra has the highest values of the aerosols index compared with the other cities, and the cities of Mosul and Rutba have the lowest values of the aerosols index for both monthly and annual means.
