Dust storm in Erbil City as a result of climatic change in Kurdistan Region Iraq
Other Title(s)
العواصف الغبارية في مدينة اربيل كنتيجة للتغيرات المناخية في إقليم كوردستان-العراق
Joint Authors
al-Kubaysi, Qusayy Yasin
Gardi, Luqman Maghdid Muhammad Amin
Source
Iraqi Journal of Science : a Refereed Science Journal
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Science
Publication Date
2012-01-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Earth Sciences, Water and Environment
Topics
Arabic Abstract
تعتبر العواصف الغبارية في العراق ظاهرة مناخية, و قد تم تحليل القياسات المتوفرة عن العواصف الغبارية للفترة من 1992 لغاية 2009 إضافة إلى المعلومات المتوفرة عن الأمطار (للفترة 1942 - 2010) و الحرارة (للفترة 1992 - 2009) لمحطة أنواء أربيل. أظهرت النتائج زيادة الغبار العالق و المتصاعد إضافة إلى العواصف الغبارية و خاصة في أشهر مارس و حزيران و تموز و آب كما أظهرت قياسات معدلات الأمطار السنوية بانخفاض كمياتها و زيادة بمعدلاتها درجة الحرارة السنوية.
English Abstract
Dust storm in Iraq is a climatic phenomenon.
Dust storm data from 1992 to 2009 and data of main climatic parameters rainfall (1942 to 2010) and air temperature (1992 to 2009) of Erbil Meteorological Station were analysed.
Results show an increase of the number of suspended and rising dust as well as dust storms with time.
An average of the above mentioned period of all types of dust storms is individually compared with the last five years.
Again, there is a noticeable increasing of the number of storms.
From the results it can be seen that the months May, June, July and August have the most frequent dust conditions while months January, February, November and December the least.
The annual precipitation trend line for water years has a significant decreasing slope.
While the average annual air temperature trend line has a significant increase.
Data Type
Conference Papers
Record ID
BIM-383192
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Kubaysi, Qusayy Yasin& Gardi, Luqman Maghdid Muhammad Amin. 2012-01-31. Dust storm in Erbil City as a result of climatic change in Kurdistan Region Iraq. Conference on Dust Storms and their environmental effects (1st : 2012 : Baghdad, Iraq). . Vol. 53, Special issue (2012), pp.40-44.Baghdad Iraq : University of Baghdad College of Science.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-383192
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Kubaysi, Qusayy Yasin& Gardi, Luqman Maghdid Muhammad Amin. Dust storm in Erbil City as a result of climatic change in Kurdistan Region Iraq. . Baghdad Iraq : University of Baghdad College of Science. 2012-01-31.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-383192
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Kubaysi, Qusayy Yasin& Gardi, Luqman Maghdid Muhammad Amin. Dust storm in Erbil City as a result of climatic change in Kurdistan Region Iraq. . Conference on Dust Storms and their environmental effects (1st : 2012 : Baghdad, Iraq).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-383192