Journal
ATMOSPHERE
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/atmos13020157
Keywords
FY-4A satellite; Himawari-8 satellite; dust storm; satellite monitoring; HYSPLIT
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Northern China experienced an unprecedented severe dust storm on 15th March 2021, originating from western Mongolia and northwest arid regions of China. The dust storm lasted over 40 hours and caused a significant decline in air quality in northern China, the Korean peninsula, and other regions.
Northern China was hit by a severe dust storm on 15 March 2021, covering a large area and bring devastating impact to a degree that was unprecedented in more than a decade. In the study, we carried out a day-and-night continuous monitoring to the path of the moving dust, using multi-spectral data from the Chinese FY-4A satellite combined with the Japanese Himawary-8 from visible to near-infrared, mid-infrared and far-infrared bands. We monitored the whole process of the dust weather from the occurrence, development, transportation and extinction. The HYSPLIT(Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) backward tracking results showed the following two main sources of dust affecting Beijing during the north China dust storm: one is from western Mongolia; the other is from arid and semi-arid regions of northwest of China. Along with the dust storm, the upper air mass, mainly from Siberia, brought a significant decrease in temperature. The transport path of the dust shown by the HYSPLIT backward tracking is consistent with that revealed by the satellite monitoring. The dust weather, which originated in western Mongolia, developed into the 3.15 dust storm in north China, lasting more than 40 h, with a transport distance of 3900 km, and caused severe decline in air quality in northern China, the Korean peninsula and other regions. It is the most severe dust weather in the past 20 years in east Asia.
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