Brown clouds of soil rose from the fields and gave the air a sepia tint.
That can look a bit scary on a dry windy day – you get black clouds of soil called the Fen Blow, with sun and blue sky above.
The evictions set the fictional Joad family on a trek west to California that was the real experience of hundreds of thousands of Americans escaping drought and the towering clouds of soil carried on the wind across the midwestern dust bowl and from the mass unemployment of the great depression in northern cities.
"It was really almost like the crater of a volcano, out of which suddenly a tremendous cloud of filth came, darkening and soiling everything," the pope tells Seewald, expressing hope that the scandals may yet "have a purifying virtue".
Dai, A., Trenberth, K. E. & Karl, T. R. Effects of clouds, soil moisture, precipitation, and water vapor on diurnal temperature range.
The scientists, from the University of South Florida and other institutions, used satellite images and ground-based measurements to track large dust clouds -- essentially, fine particles of soil -- from the Sahara in June 1999.
The FBMINC model is then used for producing both superdiffusive and subdiffusive particle paths, therefore, the non-Fickian diffusion of soil particle clouds can be modelled.
The calculation of NDVI values is influenced by a number of factors such as clouds, atmospheric, soil, anisotropic and spectral effects (Crippen 1990; Wessels et al. 2004).
Particulate component of the Mars atmosphere composed by micron-sized products of soil weathering and water ice clouds strongly affects the current climate of the planet.
That was his failure, the year before, to give cover to his squadron leader, René Mouchotte, in an engagement in which the revered French airman had been shot down and then drowned.On June 11th 1944, four years after the fall of France, Mr Clostermann was one of the first French pilots to land in a cloud of dust on French soil.
Across this fertile land, clouds of dust trail into the light of dusk, farmers busy planting and breaking up the soil.
