Drivers of recent decline in dust activity over East Asia

Chenglai Wu; Zhaohui Lin; Yaping Shao; Xiaohong Liu; Ying Li

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34823-3

Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Drivers of recent decline in dust activity over East Asia

Chenglai Wu,
Zhaohui Lin,
Yaping Shao,
Xiaohong Liu,
Ying Li

Affiliations

Chenglai Wu: International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhaohui Lin: International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yaping Shao: Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne
Xiaohong Liu: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
Ying Li: National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34823-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Changes in climatic factors mainly drive the decline of East Asian dust activity in the past two decades. The weakening of surface winds plays a dominant role, and the increasing of vegetation cover and soil moisture also has key contribution

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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