High Latitude Dust

December

• How dust from Europe's largest desert is impacting the climate

September

• UArctic at the 2024 Arctic Circle Assembly
• Dark volcanic dust in the most northern Iceland
• Dust campaign in west Greenland during 2024

August

• Three UArctic Thematic Networks from Iceland met at the Arctic Congress 2024 in Bodø, Norway

June

• Dust campaign in the Austrian Alps during 2024

April

• CAMS National Collaboration Programme Survey for Iceland: Air Quality and GHG monitoring products in Iceland and in the Arctic

March

• Polar Winter School on Snow Measurements and Arctic Air Pollution
• High Latitude Dust emphasized at the WMO International Conference on Sand and Dust Storms in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

February

• New video interviews from the Thematic Networks: Get to know the Leads
• New Research Topic on Atmosphere-Cryosphere Interactions has been opened for papers in Frontiers in Earth Science
• Join the 8th Workshop on High Latitude Dust 2024 with CAMS User Engagement session

• Publication: African dust transport and deposition modelling was verified through a successful citizen science campaign in Finland
• Presentation on Saharan dust in the Finnish atmosphere and on the ground by Outi Meinander
• Outi Meinander, Vice-Lead of the Thematic Network on High Latitude Dust, gave a presentation on Citizen Science at the 11th National Pyry Snow Seminar
• Dust hot spots of the Arctic: High Latitude Dust field campaigns 2023
• The 1st International Day to Combating Sand and Dust Storms
• UArctic Thematic Network on High Latitute Dust (HLD) publications 2023
• Kick-off meeting of the UArctic TN on High Latitude Dust
• National Snow Seminar, Helsinki, Finland
• Webpages for the new Thematic Networks launched
• UArctic welcomes new Thematic Networks

• Overview on “Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sours”