Not Just Desert Dust: Anthropogenic Air Pollution Impacts Health and Climate in the Middle East
“The conventional thinking was that dust carried by storms over the Arabian Peninsula dominated air quality over the region,” says Sergey Osipov from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. His team worked on the project with KAUST’s Georgiy Stenchikov and Alexander Ukhov, and colleagues from King Saud University and The Cyprus Institute.
Air pollution accounts for around 745 per 100,000 excess deaths per year in the region, says Osipov, which is similar to other leading health risk factors, such as tobacco smoking and high cholesterol. The study shows that exposure to air pollution is one of the leading causes of premature mortality in Saudi Arabia. Credit: © 2022 AQABA project
To address this scarcity of data, the researchers, led by Jos Lelieveld from MPI for Chemistry, collected measurements taken at sea as part of the international collaboration, called Air Quality and climate in the Arabian Basin . The measurements, collected over two months during the summer of 2017, covered various ambient conditions ranging from pristine in the remote atmosphere to heavy pollution and dust storms.
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