How can we mitigate the impacts of dust storms?

By Carlos Pérez García-Pando, ICREA Research Professor, AXA Professor on Sand and Dust Storms and Head of the Atmospheric Composition group at the Barcelona Supecomputing Center, ICREA
Sara Basart, Researcher of the Atmospheric Composition group, in charge of the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System Regional Center for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe,, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)

Dust storms are not unusual, but intense ones have a wide range negative impacts upon multiple socioeconomic sectors. How do we address them?

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