Webinars

Webinar by Pablo Mendez-Lazaro (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico). The lecture focused on the ongoing activities of the Environmental Health Department to implement mitigation measures in Puerto Rico for preventing the impacts of Saharan dust.

The webinar was organized by the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center, as a continuation of the inDust webinar series. 

Webinar by Dr Michael Schulz (MetNo, Norway). The lecture provided an overview of the main results and lessons learnt by the AEROCOM community (https://aerocom.met.no/). AEROCOM is an open international initiative of scientists interested in the advancement of the understanding of global aerosol and its impact on climate.

Webinar by Alexander Haefele (MeteoSwiss). The lecture focused on the status of the E-PROFILE network for vertical profiling of wind, clouds and aerosols. The webinar is organized by the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center, as a continuation of the inDust webinar series. 

Webinar by Marie Dumont (UMR CNRS & Météo-France). The lecture focused on the identification of the different interactions of dust with snow cover. The webinar was organized by the WMO Barcelona Dust Regional Center, as a continuation of the inDust webinar series. 

inDust webinar by Paola Formenti (CNRS-LISA, France). The lecture offered an overview of the physico-chemical properties of mineral dust gathered from field campaigns and laboratory studies.

Download the webinar slides here.

inDust webinar by Carlos Pérez García-Pando (BSC, Spain). The lecture focused on the importance of dust mineralogy in climate. Dr Pérez García-Pando is leading the ERC Consolidator Grant FRAGMENT (Frontiers in Dust Mineralogical Composition and its Effects upon Climate), whose goal is to understand and constrain the global mineralogical composition of dust along with its effects upon climate.

inDust webinar by Barbara Scherllin-Pirscher (ZAMG, Austria). The lecture focused on an overview of the different dust impacts on the aviation sector and the lessons learnt within the EUNADICS-AV project.

inDust webinar by Lucia Mona (CNR-IMAA, Italy). The lecture consisted in giving an overview of the different aerosol remote sensing databases from ground-based and satellite observations and the challenges associated to perform an accurate aerosol type classification. This topic is part of the discussions promoted by the AeroSat community (https://aero-sat.org/).

inDust webinar by Xavier Querol (IDAEA-CSIC, Spain). The lecture focused on the characterisation of dust intrusions in Europe and the applications of this information on health.

inDust webinar by Ana Vukovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia). The lecture focused on the efforts made to develop a high-resolution global dust map. The work is part of the Sand and Dust Storm toolkit coordinated by UNCCD.  

inDust webinar by Antonis Gkikas (National Observatory of Athens, Greece). The lecture focused on the presentation of MIDAS  which is a global fine-resolution dust optical depth dataset and its applications for DA. 

inDust webinar by Claire Ryder (University of Reading, United Kingdom). The lecture focused on the state-of-the-art about giant dust particles. 

inDust webinar by Nicholas Middleton (University of Oxford). The lecture focused on the recently published UNEP report on Impacts of Sand and Dust Storms on Oceans. 

inDust webinar by Isadora Jimenez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, BSC). The lecture focused on the efforts done to develop visualisation platforms designed for specific socio-economic sectors.

inDust webinar by Aurelio Tobías (Institute of Environmental Assessment & Water Research, IDAEA-CSIC). The lecture focused on the methods used to assess the short-term impacts of desert dust on health.

inDust webinar by Ourania Soupiona (National Technical University of Athens, Greece). The lecture focuses on the dust properties and impact in radiative forcing, based on the analysis of EARLINET observations during Saharan dust intrusions over the northern Mediterranean region (2014-2017).

inDust webinar by Slobodan Nickovic (Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia, Serbia). The lecture focuses on the efforts made to develop the first Icelandic dust forecasts available in the Regional Center of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS).