Welcome to my personal page I would be honored and happy to connect and collaborate. Please visit also my ResearchGate page and let’s stay in touch! orcid.org/0000-0002-7587-0006 Follow @drdianafrancis Please visit my lab webpage for more info: https://www.ku.ac.ae/engeos PhD Defense presentation PhD Thesis Manuscript List of my publications 2023 […]
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Sahara desert sand is finding a newer, quicker route to the Arctic, sparks global warming fears, The National Newspaper, UAE
Desert dust is travelling to the Arctic at a greater rate than previously thought, a new study carried out at New York University Abu Dhabi has found., 10 October 2018
Diana Francis
Welcome to my personal website! I would be honored and happy to connect and collaborate. Please visit also my ResearchGate page and let’s stay in touch! orcid.org/0000-0002-7587-0006 Follow @drdianafrancis PhD Defense presentation PhD Thesis Manuscript Peer re-viewed journal publications: 2018 Francis D., C. Eayrs, J-P. Chaboureau, T. Mote, D. Holland (2018), Polar […]
The Secret life of dust
What do dust storms have in common with the prospects of finding life on Mars, and a multi-billion dollar problem for the electronics industry? University of Michigan professor Nilton Renno has the answers.
Sharav dust storm
Bou Karam D., C. Flamant, J. Cuesta, J. Pelon, E. Williams (2010): Dust emission and transport associated with Saharan depressions: The February 2007 case. Abstract The dust activity over North Africa associated with the Saharan depression event in February 2007 is investigated by mean of spaceborne observations and ground based […]
Quantification of Dust load in the ITD region
Bou Karam D., C. Flamant, P. Tulet, J-P. Chaboureau, A. Dabas, M. C. Todd (2009b): Estimate of Sahelian dust emissions in the Intertropical discontinuity region of the West African Monsoon, submitted to JGR. Abstract A three-dimensional mesoscale numerical simulation has been performed to investigate the dust emissions over Sahel associated […]
Dry cyclogenesis and dust lofting over Sahara-Sahel
Diana Bou Karam, Cyrille Flamant, Pierre Tulet, Martin C. Todd, Jacques Pelon and Earle Williams: Dry cyclogenesis and dust mobilization in the Inter Tropical Discontinuity of the West African Monsoon: a case study, submitted to JGR. Abstract Three-dimensional mesoscale numerical simulations were performed over Niger in order to investigate dry […]
A newly identified mechanism for dust emission over West Africa
Bou Karam, D., C. Flamant, P. Knippertz, O. Reitebuch, J. Pelon, M. Chong, A. Dabas (2008): Dust emissions over the Sahel associated with the West African Monsoon inter-tropical discontinuity region: a representative case study, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 134: 621–634. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/qj.244 Abstract: […]
Model inter-comparisons of dust emission over the Bodélé Depression
M.C. Todd, D. Bou Karam, C. Cavazos, C. Bouet, B. Heinold, G. Cautenet, P. Tulet, C. Perez, I. Tegen, and R. Washington: “Quantifying uncertainty in estimates of mineral dust flux: an inter-comparison of model performance over the Bodélé Depression, Northern Chad”, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24107, 2008, doi:10.1029/2008JD010476. Abstract Mineral dust aerosols […]