Sustainable Desert Greening

Increasingly, it is becoming clear that major infrastructure decisions such as investment in large scale solar farms or new desalination plants are heavily influenced by environmental factors such as fluctuating salinity levels and atmospheric dust. This project leveraged prior work to develop high fidelity models of dust and water quality for the Arabian peninsula today and in future decades that can be used as boundary conditions for future efforts at “Greening the Desert” that are better synchronized with environmental constraints.