Environmental effects of dust storms on human health in Iraq for the period (1987-2017

Abstract

8(climatic stations distributed over the study area, which are the rates of wind speed (m / S) and trends and rain amounts (mm) monthly and annual, it was found that the highest speed of wind at the station Nasiriyah, which amounted to (4.2 m / s), and the lowest speed (1.3 m / s), while the winds of the wind blowing on Iraq are blowing from desert areas with disintegrated soil and non-coherent and with a semi-zero vegetation. The highest total rainfall in the stations studied is Mosul station and concentrated In January, with an average of 129.5 mm, and the lowest in the wet station in January Ni (26.3 mm). The study also pointed out the most important sources of local and regional dust storms by clarifying them with satellite tables and satellite images and mapping the distribution of the most important sources of sand and dust storms in Iraq, which helped to explain the effects of them, namely the economic, health and social effects, Dust storms, with short-, medium- and long-term plans.

Keywords

rates, wind speed