Some Advances in Dust Storm over China‐Mongolia Areas
Some Advances in Dust Storm over China‐Mongolia Areas
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DOI:
10.1002/cjg2.813
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2006
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Z. Qian;Ying Cai;Jing-Tao Liu;Chung-Ming Liu;Dongliang Li;Minhong Song
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Z. Qian;Ying Cai;Jing-Tao Liu;Chung-Ming Liu;Dongliang Li;Minhong Song
To give a up-to-date review of the present status of dust storm (hereafter DS) researches over China-Mongolia Areas (CMA), first, the three stages of China DS researches in the last 20 years are reviewed, then the main advances in dust aerosol observations, DS climatology, the circulation patterns of DS outbreak and dust transport, DS activity changes in the past five decades and their causes, as well as some problems to be solved are presented in this paper. It shows that: (1) The DS over CMA originates mainly from both the Northwest China (NWC) and South-and NW-Mongolia areas. With the intensifying of the dusty weathers, surface total suspended particulates (TSP) of dust will increase in geometric series at the rate of triples. (2) There exist seven DS high frequence regions in CMA, they are Tarim Basin, Gansu Corridor, Mid- and West-Inner Mongolia, and Hunshandake sand region in China and Dalanzadgad and Zamin Uud in Mongolia. Most of DS events occur between 13:00 to 20:00 Beijing Time (BT) of springs. (3) There are briefly two kinds of DS outbreak circulation patterns in CMA, i.e., the low pressure plus cold front, and the low cold front plus meso-scale system. Certainly, they are the combinations of the different lows and cold fronts for east-, mid- and west- regimes of CMA. The former makes up the most of them; the latter, a few percent only, but is one of the most important disaster weathers to forecast. The dust transport downwind depends mainly on the circulation on lower-levels. (4) In the past five decades the DS activities over the whole CMA changed in a wavy way, first gradually increased from 1950's to 1970's, got its peak frequency in 1970's; then gradually decreased from 1980's to 1990's; still then increased suddenly in the years 2000~2002 and decreased abruptly in the years 2003~2005. Also their changes in the each regime of CMA are a little different. The main factors which cause the DS interdecadal changes may relate to the interdecadal changes of East Asia atmospheric circulation, not the desertification condition. (5) Finally three aspects which need to further study are given.