Meteorological overview and verification of HYSPLIT and AAQFS dust forecasts for the duststorm of 22-24 October 2002

摘要

The large-scale dust event that was observed in much of central and eastern Australia over the period 22-24 October 2002 was one of the largest experienced in Australia in recent decades. Its large scale, and the high quality observations of the storm from a variety of observing platforms, provided the opportunity to verify forecasts of the dust transport during this event from two particulate transport models.