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Long-range Transport of Asian Dust and Its Effects on Ocean Ecosystem

  • GAO Huiwang ,
  • SHI Jinhui ,
  • FENG Shizuo1 ,
  • SHI Guangyu ,
  • QI Jianhua
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  • 1.Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100,China; 2.State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China

Received date: 2008-07-05

  Revised date: 2008-12-10

  Online published: 2009-01-10

Abstract

It is recognized that Asian dust, one of the main component of dust in the world, has important effect on air quality, transportation, human health and climate, but only primary knowledge about the mechanism of eolian dust-ocean ecosystem-radiative gases-climate change has been obtained. The estimation of dust emission from three main sources in Asia remains great uncertainty. Asian dust would exert effect on a broad area of the Northern Pacific Ocean after long-range transportation by the west wind, and its transport path and reaching area rely on the location of source, spectral distribution of dust and the pattern of atmospheric circulation. It is well known that atmospheric deposition of dust is one of the main sources of nutrients and pollutants in the ocean, but the understanding of its effect on marine ecosystem and feedback is quite limited. Based on the reviews of related research, the contents and objective of ADOES(Asian Dust and Ocean EcoSystem), are suggested.

 

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GAO Huiwang , SHI Jinhui , FENG Shizuo1 , SHI Guangyu , QI Jianhua . Long-range Transport of Asian Dust and Its Effects on Ocean Ecosystem[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2009 , 24(1) : 1 -10 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2009.01.0001

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