Saharan Dust Caribbean Map 2025. Drought conditions and desertification associated with global warming can. Preliminary findings show that air samples from mali contain a greater number of pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs).

Satellite images show huge cloud of saharan dust heading across atlantic to caribbean. The dust is often visible from space during the spring, summer, and early fall, when huge plumes of dry, dusty air from the sahara desert (the saharan air layer) blow westward.