Abstract
Dust storms have been an increasing concern in the Middle East. Severe drought events and human activities, particularly water and land management, have led to emerging dust sources in the last few decades. This study combines spatio-temporal maps of land susceptibility to dust storm incidence with agricultural land use change data to examine the link between farming patterns and dust storm generation in the Tigris and Euphrates Basin from 2000 to 2021.
Hossein Hashemi et al 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 024011
About Hossein Hashemi
Hossein Hashemi received his doctoral degree from the Department of Water Resources Engineering at Lund University in 2014. After completing Ph.D., he was admitted as postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Groundwater Evaluation and Management in the Geophysics Department at Stanford University (2015-2017). In the postdoctoral research, he mainly focused on remote sensing techniques in water resources, specifically, application of InSAR technique in the field of groundwater evaluation and management in the arid and semi-arid areas.
Hossein’s research interests lie in the field of:
- Groundwater hydrology and management
- Water harvesting systems
- Remote sensing of precipitation and land surface deformation
- Climate change
Hossein teaches courses in hydrology and fluid mechanics. He is also responsible for a master course entitled Environment and Sustainable Development in the Middle East.