Why super sandstorm 2021 in North China?
Abstract Severe sandstorms reoccurred in the spring of 2021 after an absence for more than 10 years in North China. The dust source area, located in Mongolia, suffered destructive cooling and warming in early and late winter, which loosened the land. A lack of precipitation, excessive snow melt and...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/nsr/nwab165 2024-06-23T07:54:18+00:00 Why super sandstorm 2021 in North China? Yin, Zhicong Wan, Yu Zhang, Yijia Wang, Huijun National Natural Science Foundation of China 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab165 https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwab165/42198565/nwab165.pdf https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article-pdf/9/3/nwab165/44252576/nwab165.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ National Science Review volume 9, issue 3 ISSN 2095-5138 2053-714X journal-article 2021 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab165 2024-06-11T04:17:02Z Abstract Severe sandstorms reoccurred in the spring of 2021 after an absence for more than 10 years in North China. The dust source area, located in Mongolia, suffered destructive cooling and warming in early and late winter, which loosened the land. A lack of precipitation, excessive snow melt and strong evaporation resulted in dry soil and exiguous spring vegetation. A super-strong Mongolian cyclone developed on the bare and loose ground, and easily blew and transported large amounts of sand particles into North China. Furthermore, top-ranking anomalies (sea ice shift in the Barents and Kara Sea, and sea surface temperatures in the east Pacific and northwest Atlantic) were found to induce the aforementioned tremendous climate anomalies in the dust source area. Analyses, based on large-ensemble Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, yield results identical to the reanalysis data. Thus, the climate variabilities at different latitudes and synoptic disturbances jointly facilitated the strongest spring sandstorm over the last decade. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kara Sea Northwest Atlantic Sea ice Oxford University Press Kara Sea Pacific National Science Review |
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Abstract Severe sandstorms reoccurred in the spring of 2021 after an absence for more than 10 years in North China. The dust source area, located in Mongolia, suffered destructive cooling and warming in early and late winter, which loosened the land. A lack of precipitation, excessive snow melt and strong evaporation resulted in dry soil and exiguous spring vegetation. A super-strong Mongolian cyclone developed on the bare and loose ground, and easily blew and transported large amounts of sand particles into North China. Furthermore, top-ranking anomalies (sea ice shift in the Barents and Kara Sea, and sea surface temperatures in the east Pacific and northwest Atlantic) were found to induce the aforementioned tremendous climate anomalies in the dust source area. Analyses, based on large-ensemble Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, yield results identical to the reanalysis data. Thus, the climate variabilities at different latitudes and synoptic disturbances jointly facilitated the strongest spring sandstorm over the last decade. |
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Why super sandstorm 2021 in North China? |
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