Title

Data from: Statistical analysis of dust storms in the United Arab Emirates

Publication Date

9-13-2019

Description

Dust storm events in the United Arab Emirates during the period 1st of January 2010 -31st of December 2017 and the pivot table for retrieving the data.

Study data was downloaded from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Climate Data website (https://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/cdopoemain.cmd?datasetabbv=DS3505) for period 1st of January 2010 – 25th of December 2017.

The visibility events were classified in four categories Severe Dust Storm - when visibility was <200 >m, Dust Storm - when visibility varied from 200 m to 1000 m, Blowing Dust - when visibility was between 1000 m and 11,000 m, and None when visibility was above 11,000 m. Data was organized into Excel files. A pivot table has been produced, for retrieving visibility events per category, years and seasons, the total number of hours and days per season and event.

Repository Name

Mendeley Data

Language

English

Temporal Coverage

January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2017

Geographical Coverage

United Arab Emirates

File Formats

XLSX

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License

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Open

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