Dust storms and loess accumulation on the Tibetan Plateau: A case study of dust event on 4 March 2003 in Lhasa

doi:10.1360/03wd0180

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	Dust storms and loess accumulation on the Tibetan Plateau: A case study of dust event on 4 March 2003 in Lhasa
	Fang, XM; Han, YX; Ma, JH; Song, LC; Yang, SL; Zhang, XY
	2004-05
发表期刊	CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
卷号	49 期号:9 页码:953-960
文章类型	Article
摘要	Whether the Tibetan Plateau is a significant dust source area is of great importance, because this is related to the understanding of sources, accumulation and environmental effects of dusts on the Tibetan Plateau and in the Far East-Pacific Ocean regions as well as to the evolution of coupling of the Tibetan Plateau and atmosphere-ocean-continent exchange. Synoptic dynamics and remote sensing tracing of a dust storm on 3 to 5 March, 2003 in Lhasa on South Tibet demonstrate that the Tibetan Plateau possesses all factors and conditions of generating dust storms. Accompanied with this dust storm is a strong ascending stream on the Plateau which has raised various sizes of dust particles into different levels. The lifted coarse particles were largely fallen down and accumulated as loess on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, and the fine particles were translated by the westerly jet and subsided in the northern Pacific Ocean. The spatial-temporal distribution of dust-storms between years 1961 and 2000 on the Plateau shows that dust-storms mainly occur in winter and early spring with high frequency, and the path of dust storm moves gradually from south to north, which is closely coupled with the northward moving of the westerly jet from winter to spring over the Tibetan Plateau. Compared with other twelve dust source areas in China, the Tibetan Plateau is one of the key dust source areas for the long-distance transport because its high occurring frequency and elevation cause fine particles easily to be lifted into the zone of the westerly jet.
关键词	Tibetan Plateau dust storm dust source areas Tibetan loess
学科领域	Science & Technology - Other Topics
DOI	10.1360/03wd0180
关键词[WOS]	NORTH PACIFIC ; EOLIAN DEPOSITION ; UPLIFT ; DESERT ; CHINA ; ASIA
收录类别	SCI ; SCIE
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000222902200020
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
引用统计	被引频次：111[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/11898
专题	黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室（1985-2004）
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fang, XM,Han, YX,Ma, JH,et al. Dust storms and loess accumulation on the Tibetan Plateau: A case study of dust event on 4 March 2003 in Lhasa[J]. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,2004,49(9):953-960.
APA	Fang, XM,Han, YX,Ma, JH,Song, LC,Yang, SL,&Zhang, XY.(2004).Dust storms and loess accumulation on the Tibetan Plateau: A case study of dust event on 4 March 2003 in Lhasa.CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,49(9),953-960.
MLA	Fang, XM,et al."Dust storms and loess accumulation on the Tibetan Plateau: A case study of dust event on 4 March 2003 in Lhasa".CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 49.9(2004):953-960.