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Article: Asian pollution drifts over North America.(dust)(Brief Article)
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- Science News
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- December 12, 1998
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Faster than mail traveling from Beijing to Seattle, air pollution and dust from China can speed across the Pacific Ocean and blanket broad swaths of North America, according to measurements made during the past 2 years.
"[This] is the first time that anyone has ever documented that pollution from one continent can make it all the way to a downstream continent," says Dan Jaffe of the University of Washington-Bothell. Jaffe and members of other research teams presented the new data this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
By the time Asian pollution crosses the Pacific--which takes from 4 to 10 days--it typically does not ...