2010 Pakistan Floods caused by
dust
and the lack of atmospheric dust:
Dust and cloud images July 1 to August
26, 2010.
Copyright © 2011 by Craig C. Dremann
The Reveg Edge, P.O. Box 361, Redwood City, CA 94064 (650) 325-7333.
Images from the US Navy NRL/Monterey Aerosol Page and the
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center
at https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/comp/latest_cmoll.gif at
18:00Z.
Each summer, a cloud of atmospheric dust acts as a
wall against the monsoonal moisture, and keeps the moisture bottled
up over India and from raining over western India to eastern Africa,
as you can see from the Dust Surface Concentration daily images
from the US Navy NRL/Monterey Aerosol Page at https://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/aerosol/index_frame.html.
However, in July and August 2010, the wall of dust over Pakistan
fell, allowing the monsoonal moisture to fall in torrential rains,
with devistating consequences. Between July 3 and 4, the dust
curtain parted from northern Pakistan, which set the stage for
the floods.
Also note that the monsoonal moisture caused other
flood events outside of Pakistan: July 13 = KSA torrential rain.
July 10-15 = Yemen and KSA Jeddah flash floods. July 23-25 = KSA
flash floods.
By monitoring the atmospheric dust, the lack of dust
over certain areas, may help predict future flood events. Also,
a positive effect could be, by controlling the atmopheric dust
over these arid regions, may benefit the people living there,
by helping to increase the annual rainfall.
Yemen flash floods, July 10, 2010.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, torrential rain July 13, 2010.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, flash floods, July 23-25, 2010
See also https://www.ecoseeds.com/GONU.html
for the interactions between the Cyclone GONU and the dust from
Arabia, and https://www.ecoseeds.com/cool.html
for the interactions of the Arabian rainfall, dust, vegetation,
barometric pressure and dew point.
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