«In addition, when Mars is closest to the sun, the atmosphere becomes turbulent, resulting
in global dust storms and other activity.
Unlike the Moon, however, Mars is a dynamic world that can be engulfed from pole to pole
in a global dust storm.
Not exact matches
Dust storms play a vital role
in global ecology.
Because of the available launch window, the spacecraft are arriving at Mars
in the middle of its
global dust storm season.
For example, Mars experiences
global dust storms in addition to its annual cycles of atmospheric freeze - out at the poles.
Besides searching for water, geologists will use Webb to study the formation and evolution of
global dust storms and cloud systems over dormant volcanoes, and search for traces of chemical changes
in the atmosphere.
India could witness an increase
in the severity and frequency of
dust storms and thunderstorms due to rising
global temperatures, experts say.
As an aside, this was the chapter that I believe Chris Landsea was working on before he resigned
in a
dust up with Kevin Trenbreth over the politicization (claimed by Landsea against Trenbreth) of the issue of tropical
storm activity and
global warming.
Focusing on decimal degree C. changes
in global temperature is the tantamount to focusing attention away from the coming climate changes that will cause floods, droughts,
dust storms, high winds and other extreme weather events and the difficulty of predicting where, when, and which kinds of weather related problems people
in the near future will be experiencing.