Team devises technique to predict dust storms with infrared satellite

Researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a method for predicting dust and sandstorms that uses infrared satellite images to determine when conditions are ripe for the destructive phenomena, a technique that could be implemented globally and that the research team used to forecast a 2008 New Mexico dust stor -- the area's largest in decades -- two days beforehand.

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