Could anyone kindly guide me or recommend a platform /database where I could find and download dust cartography maps? Any advice or direction in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.
There are several online platforms and databases where you can find and download dust cartography data. Here are a few that you might find useful:
NASA's Giovanni: The GES-DISC Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure (Giovanni) is a web-based application providing a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of Earth science remote sensing data. You can select specific parameters related to aerosol and dust.
NASA's Worldview: This tool from NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) provides the capability to interactively browse over 700 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers. You can also download the underlying data. Some of the available layers are related to dust and aerosols.
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS): CAMS provides continuous data and information on atmospheric composition. The service includes the monitoring of dust, which you can access from their data portal.
NOAA's HYSPLIT Model: The Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model (HYSPLIT) is a complete system for computing simple air parcel trajectories to complex dispersion and deposition simulations. This could be useful if you are interested in dust transport.
AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork): This is a network of ground-based remote sensing aerosol stations spread worldwide. This program provides a long-term, continuous and readily accessible public domain database of aerosol optical, microphysical and radiative properties.
Dust forecasts from Barcelona Supercomputing Center: The Barcelona Supercomputing Center offers dust forecasts for different regions of the world.