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The synoptic characteristics of the RSTs associated with dust events that influenced the northern and western Arabian Peninsula (AP) were studied using each dust category (i.e., comparing dust and non-dust cases) and were compared between the different categories (i.e., comparing the dust cases among short, moderate and long categories). The identified dust cases were used to classify each RST category into two classes, dust RSTs and non-dust RSTs. The dust events during the study period were identified using a threshold value of the Total Ozone Monitoring Satellite (TOMS) aerosol index (AI). The results indicated that most short RSTs appeared during a cold spring (larger by 7% in March than May), while most long RSTs appeared during a warm spring, where reached 71.7% in April and May. From 1979 to 2006, the Red Sea trough (RST) in spring was objectively detected and classified into three categories (short, moderate and long) depending on its northward extension.
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