The town's isolation and its climate of hot, dusty summers and punishingly cold winters drove Fyodor Dostoevsky to distraction during the five years he spent in exile in the town, where he had seizures and sank into depression.
Roussillon is a complex terroir, with myriad variations in its soils and a range of climates, from the hot, dusty interior regions around Vingrau to the slightly damper coastal hills around the picturesque harbor town of Collioure.
The incidence of meningococcal disease has previously been correlated with dry and dusty conditions in tropical and temperate climates (18 – 21 ).
In CA, the climate is characterised as generally being dry and dusty and having extremes of heat and cold.
Based on this terrestrial analogue, we develop a thermal model that consists of a thick insulating dusty layer over ice-saturated dust during a period of slight climatic warming relative to today's climate.
Ionospheric studies of dusty plasma relate directly to astrophysical plasmas, which are also dusty, but also to climate change because the mere existence of radar echoes from dusty plasma is due to increasing mesospheric water content and cooling, both brought on by climate change (Olivero and Thomas 2001).
This is likely due to the dusty local environment (largely farming communities), the study season (which favors vernal catarrh), and the climate itself.Moreover, rural living is a risk factor for the development of chronic allergic conjunctivitis in children [ 15].
And with climate models suggesting a hotter, drier future in much of the West, potentially compounding dusty conditions, the dust is also opening a window on how the region is changing.
The climate of fear and paranoia is pervasive: uniformed soldiers in military vehicles can be seen patrolling the dusty streets of Khartoum daily.
