Inversion of sky light measurements show that single scattering albedos of the yellow dust in East Asia are mostly below 0.9 at 440 nm, much lower than the "whiter" and "redder" dust models applied in the DB al
It has been reported that countries from East Asia are receiving mostly transboundary pollution, which is one of the biggest concerns for most of the countries in East Asia, which are recently being addressed by the different countries (Aikawa et al., 2010; Nazeer and Furuoka, 2017). These...
Rather than a single trade route from East to West,the Silk Roads were made up of overlapping networks linking communities across Asia,Africa and Europe,from East Asia to Britain,and from Scandinavia to Madagascar.This major exhibition unravels how the journeys of people,objects and ideas that fo...
The Sahara(撒哈拉) is the largest(最大的) desert(沙漠) in the world, 1,000 miles(英里)from north to south and 3,000 miles from east to west. But you mustn't think of it as a "sea of sand". Most of the Sahar a receives(接受) almost no rain at all, and so there are no ...
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1). The Sahara and Sahel regions in Northern Africa are the most active dust sources in terms of emissions (790–840 million t/yr), followed by the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts in East Asia (140–220 million t/yr), the Middle East region (13–20 million t/yr), Central ...
Extending for some 1200 miles east northeast from China's Tian Shan, or "Celestial," mountain range into China's Manchurian region, it covers well over half a million square miles, lying in the heart of Asia's most remote region. With the elevations of its basins ranging from roughly 1600...
Desert locust outbreak in East Africa is threatening livelihoods, food security, environment, and economic development in the region. The current magnitude of the desert locust invasion in East Africa is unprecedented and has not been witnessed for more than 70 years. Identifying the potential breedin...
We recently developed a new provenance tracing method by using a combination of Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) signal intensity and Crystallinity Index (CI) of quartz, and demonstrated that fine fraction of the surface sediments from nine major deserts in East Asia could be distinguished one another...
Li5, Xiaoze Li6, Guoxiong Chen1, Xinrong Li1,7, Eviatar Nevo8 & Xiao-Fei Ma1 Both of the uplift of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) and the development of East Asian monsoon system (EAMS) could have comprehensively impacted the formation and evolution of Arid Central Asia (ACA)...