Weakening Dust Storm Intensity in Arid Central Asia Due to Global Warming Over the Past 160 Years

Weakening Dust Storm Intensity in Arid Central Asia Due to Global Warming Over the Past 160 Years

Dust storms occur frequently in arid central Asia (ACA) and greatly influence the regional ecology/environment, human health, and security, as well as the global climate. To date, neither the patterns nor the underlying mechanisms of dust storms in ACA are fully understood, partly due to the lack of...

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Main Authors: Jin Zhang, Hai Xu, Jianghu Lan, Li Ai, Enguo Sheng, Dongna Yan, Kang’en Zhou, Keke Yu, Yunping Song, Shuang Zhang, Adi Torfstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
dust storm
global warming
arid central Asia
Lake Karakul
grain size
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2020.00284/full

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