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AOES Part of NASA Public Health Effort

AOES Associate Professor Daniel Tong  was highlighted in NASA's news item on National Public Health Week.  Dr. Tong's work on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols has led him to air quality analysis and forecasting of major dust storms.

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Dust concentration and wind vectors for the United States from paper by Daniel Tong and co-authors.
From Kondragunta, Zhang, Ciren, Laszlo, and Tong, 2018. High concentrations in the Southwest are from dust-storms. pm2.5 measures particles no more than 2.5 micrometers in size. 

 

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