A land classification of the United Arab Emirates

Environmental Characterization of Global Sources of Atmospheric Soil Dust Identified With the Nimbus 7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (Toms) Absorbing Aerosol Product

“…This region has no prominent morphological features (e.g., sand fields, large wadis, etc). It is a geologically recent tidal flat, wider in the south and southwest (up to ∼ 30 km wide), covered by sandy calcareous sediments and evaporites, the classic coastal sabkha [ Evans et al , 1964; Satchell et al , 1981; El‐Sayed , 1999]. In contrast to the other dust sources that we have identified thus far, most of the sediments originated from in situ or coastal processes not from fluvial deposits carried from higher elevations [ Evans et al , 1964].…”