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Article: Researchers from Kyushu University detail new studies and findings in the area of science.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- October 20, 2009
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"Mineral dust is usually transported long distances in the lower troposphere. There are examples of Asian dust being transported across the Pacific Ocean(1-7), and traces of Asian dust have also been found in ice and snow cores in Greenland(8) and the French Alps(9)," researchers in Fukuoka, Japan report.
"Here, we use measurements from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization(10), an air parcel trajectory model and a three-dimensional aerosol transport model to map the transport of dust clouds generated during a storm in China's Taklimakan Desert during May 2007. We show that the dust-veiled clouds were lofted to the upper troposphere around 8-10 km ...