Haboob dust storms of the southern Arabian Peninsula

The Arabic word “haboob,” meaning “strong wind,” describes a weather phenomenon characterized by immense walls of blowing sand and dust. Common to many parts of the Middle East, northern Africa, and the southwestern United States, haboobs are spawned by strong mesoscale downdrafts, making their prediction by coarse‐grid numerical models difficult in comparison to dust forced by synoptic‐scale dynamics. The United Arab Emirates Unified Aerosol...