Identifying Threats and Reducing Risks of Health Damage from Dust Storms Under a Changing Climate Across the Arabian Peninsula

Archive Project
Identifying Threats and Reducing Risks of Health Damage from Dust Storms Under a Changing Climate Across the Arabian Peninsula

Focus Areas: 

  • Policy Scenarios
  • Air Quality & Health
  • Regional Analysis
  • Asia & Australasia

The MIT Joint Program is collaborating with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to conduct numerical experiments with a high-resolution regional climate model (WRF) over the Arabian Peninsula, with the objective of assessing the environmental impacts and urban water-resource risks of a changing climate, and the benefits of mitigation and adaptation. This project is funded via the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center.

Funding Sources

Project Leaders
C. Adam Schlosser
Administration, Faculty
MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy