Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559577

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0559577

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Australian Dust Transport System: characterisation and downwind impacts. Most Australians are aware that dust storms occur in dry inland areas and recently many experienced first hand, the dust storms that engulfed our cities. Few, however, are aware of the diverse impacts of desert dust downwind from source. Recent technological advances in remote sensing have made dust storms much easier to study, and Australian researchers will use these, and other innovative techniques, to reconstruct the major dust storms back to 1960. They will reconstruct the sources, dust loads and trajectories of these storms, and examine how dust affects urban air pollution. Their data will also be provided to an allied research team in New Zealand, who are examining how iron-rich Australia dust affects phytoplankton in the oceans.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2005

End Date: 12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $265,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Geomorphology | Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience | Atmospheric Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Atmospheric processes | Air quality | Air quality |

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