Spaceborne radar identification of desert regions as suppliers of dust into the atmosphere

• Date: 2017
• Main Authors: Ivanov, Viktor, Matveyev, Aleksandr, Tsymbal, Valeriy, Yatsevich, Sergey, Bychkov, Dmytro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Scientific Centre for Aerospace Research of the Earth Institute of Geological Science National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2017
• Subjects: radar observations; highly directional radio wave backscattering; Aeolian transport of sand and dust; sand ripples; ionization; electric field
• Online Access: https://ujrs.org.ua/ujrs/article/view/87
• Journal Title: Ukrainian Journal of Remote Sensing of the Earth

Atmosphere dust represents a mixture of minute particles of various salts and minerals. Also it contains remains of animal and vegetable organisms, spores of causative organisms and so forth. The dust is carried by winds over considerable distances and its presence in the atmosphere is among the fac...