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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 62-70Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2016.05.046
Keywords
East Asia dust; WRF; MODIS; Tarim Basin; Topographical effect
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- China Scholarship Council
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41075103, 41075102, 41305105]
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A severe dust event occurred from April 23 to April 27, 2014, in East Asia. A state-of-the-art online atmospheric chemistry model, WRF/Chem, was combined with a dust model, GOCART, to better understand the entire process of this event. The natural color images and aerosol optical depth (AOD) over the dust source region are derived from datasets of moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) loaded on a NASA Aqua satellite to trace the dust variation and to verify the model results. Several meteorological conditions, such as pressure, temperature, wind vectors and relative humidity, are used to analyze meteorological dynamic. The results suggest that the dust emission occurred only on April 23 and 24, although this event lasted for 5 days. The Gobi Desert was the main source for this event, and the Taklamakan Desert played no important role. This study also suggested that the landform of the source region could remarkably interfere with a dust event. The Tarim Basin has a topographical effect as a dust reservoir and can store unsettled dust, which can be released again as a second source, making a dust event longer and heavier. (C) 2016 The Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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