Dust storms and their environmental impact on the neighborhood's residential site (Anbar University)

Abstract

Dust storms consider as a climate phenomenon that occurs most frequently in arid and semi-arid aries with a dry desert climate , and this applies to study area to the study area , particularly Anbar Governorate has the largest area of up to a third of the area of Iraq ,therefore it considers as a scene for the occurrence of dust storms , so its topographic composition and astronomical location contributes to their occurrence of the storms as well as the other effects of the pressure zones, longer dust storms can be consider as a negative indicator in terms of environment and life . The questionnaire shows especially in these two subjects that the predominant percentage of the population affected by their health , and this effect includes cases of suffocation , causes disturbances in the psychological composition of human person

Keywords

• dust storms
• soil erosion
• environment