Hurricane breaking news

• Earl (North Atlantic Ocean)
  
  
  Two advanced weather instruments from JPL are busy flying above Hurricane Earl, as NASA's field campaign to study how hurricanes form and intensify continues.
• Fiona (Atlantic Ocean)
  
  
  Bermuda has warnings up as Tropical Storm Fiona approaches, and GOES-13 satellite imagery from today shows that Fiona, is a much smaller system that her brother ...
• Gaston (Atlantic Ocean)
  
  
  Tropical Depression Nine strengthened yesterday into Tropical Storm Gaston, but today it ran into dry and stable air and weakened back into a depression again.
• Kompasu (Northwestern Pacific Ocean)
  
  
  NASA's Terra satellite captured the changing Tropical Storm Kompasu over Korea and China very early today, as it makes its way east to northern Japan.
• Lionrock (Western Pacific)
  
  
  Tropical Storm Lionrock is quietly roaring into oblivion after making landfall in eastern China on September 1.
• Frank (Eastern Pacific Ocean)
  
  
  NASA's Global Hawk drone aircraft flew through the heart of Tropical Storm Frank the weekend of August 28.

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• Sharav dust storm
• Quantification of Dust load in the ITD region
• Dry cyclogenesis and dust lofting over Sahara-Sahel
• A newly identified mechanism for dust emission over West Africa
• Model inter-comparisons of dust emission over the Bodélé Depression
• ITD Diurnal Cycle
• Biomass burning aerosol characterisctics over Benin
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