Relationships between the dust concentrations over eastern Asia and the remote North Pacific

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1992

Abstract

Dust storm reports as well as chemical data indicate that 1988 and 1989 were high-dust and low-dust years in eastern Asia, respectively. This pattern was not reflected in data from Midway, a remote island in the North Pacific, where the mineral aerosol concentrations during 1989 were as high as or higher than any year for which data are available. Analyses of meteorological data showed that the amount of precipitation, the strength of the westerly winds, and the position of large-scale meteorological features were related to the dust concentrations over eastern Asia. -from Authors

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volume

97

Issue

D9

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