The characterization was made by scientists from the Soil Science and Geopharmacy Research Group of the University of Granada in Spain.
“Iberulites” – it’s the new type of aerosols that scientists have identified from the Sahara desert that they say could be useful in studying climate change and the relevant atmospheric reactions from Earth.
The characterization was made by scientists from the Soil Science and Geopharmacy Research Group of the University of Granada in Spain.
Researchers have insisted that such iberulites form in the troposphere from mineral small grains emitted from desert soils and bordering regions, burst into the atmosphere in a chaotic way, collect water vapor which becomes condensed and make up little rain drops.
Scientists point out that the Sahara is a powerful emitter of atmospheric dust, which travels to the Amazon and Caribbean regions, including Florida, also reaching the North of Europe, Israel and even the Himalayas.
Such mineral grains, which contain iron, calcium, sulphur and sometimes phosphorus, fertilize the soil, forests and plankton of the oceans, lakes and seas they go through.
Such small drops of water and mineral dust grow in size as they collide with others and capture more dust, and are subject to characteristic hydrodynamic processes.
As they get dry, they are swept away by powerful air drafts.
During this trip, which can take several days, the iberolites experience a series of physical-chemical reactions and processes simultaneously, such as the incorporation of SO2 from volcanic areas (the Canary Islands), or the adhesion of planktonic organisms, virus and marine salts in the surface of the immature iberulite as they get close to the Atlantic area of Portugal, Morocco and the Gulf of Cadiz.
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