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In the 18–19 September exceptional weather conditions brought to the Scandinavia very hot air and long-range transported particles. In the paper a dust episode detected in Southern Finland, Estonia and Sweden is discussed. Short and long-range transport of dust to the target areas are simulated with a grid model Hilatar. It was found, that the dust was originating partly from the Estonian and Russian oil-shale using power plants, however, there was partly from the desert sand lifted up by wind in Kazachstan. Frequency of dust transport is discussed.
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Hongisto, M., Sofiev, M. (2004). Long-Range Transport of Dust to the Baltic Sea Region. In: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S., Waśniewski, J., Yalamov, P. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24588-9_34
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