Asian dust

Asian dust

English

Noun

Asian dust (uncountable)

1. Dust, sand, and other particulate matter from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan blown over China, Korea, and Japan in the spring.
   • 2005, Nobuo Takeuchi, Elastic Lidar Measurement of the Troposphere, in Laser Remote Sensing (Takashi Fujii, Tetsuo Fukuchi, eds.), CRC Press, page 81

     In this case, Asian dust was transported by a downward moving low pressure and the altitude of Asian dust was below 3km.

Translations

dust blown over east Asia

Japanese: 黄砂 (ja) (kōsa)

See also

• Asian dust on Wikipedia.Wikipedia