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Dust Deposition on the Gulf of California Caused by Santa Ana Winds

dc.contributor.authorAlvarez Baez, Christian Adrián
dc.contributor.authorCarbajal Pérez, José Noel
dc.contributor.authorPineda Martínez, Luis Felipe
dc.contributor.authorTuxpan Vargas, José
dc.contributor.authorFlores Jiménez, David Enrique
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-26T19:14:24Z
dc.date.available2021-04-26T19:14:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationÁvarez, C.A.; Carbajal, J.N.; Pineda-MartÍnez, L.F.; Tuxpan, J.; Flores, D.E. Dust Deposition on the Gulf of California Caused by Santa Ana Winds. Atmosphere 2020, 11, 275. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11030275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11627/5613
dc.description.abstract"Numerical simulations revealed a profound interaction between the severe dust storm of 2007 caused by Santa Ana winds and the Gulf of California. The weather research and forecasting model coupled with a chemistry module (WRF-CHEM) and the hybrid single-particle Lagrangian integrated trajectory model (HYSPLIT) allowed for the estimation of the meteorological and dynamic aspects of the event and the dust deposition on the surface waters of the Gulf of California caused by the erosion and entrainment of dust particles from the surrounding desert regions. The dust emission rates from three chosen areas (Altar desert, Sonora coast, and a region between these two zones) and their contribution to dust deposition over the Gulf of California were analyzed. The Altar Desert had the highest dust emission rates and the highest contribution to dust deposition over the Gulf of California, i.e., it has the most critical influence with 96,879 tons of emission and 43,539 tons of dust deposition in the gulf. An increase of chlorophyll-a concentrations is observed coinciding with areas of high dust deposition in the northern and western coast of the gulf. This kind of event could have a significant positive influence over the mineralization and productivity processes in the Gulf of California, despite the soil loss in the eroded regions."
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectNumerical simulation
dc.subjectSanta Ana winds
dc.subjectDust storm
dc.subjectWRF-CHEM
dc.subjectGulf of California
dc.subjectDust deposition
dc.subject.classificationCIENCIAS DE LA ATMÓSFERA
dc.titleDust Deposition on the Gulf of California Caused by Santa Ana Winds
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11030275
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