Attribution of the March 2021 exceptional dust storm in North China
Zhiyuan Hu, Yuanyuan Ma, Qinjian Jin, Nkurunziza Fabien Idrissa, Jianping Huang, Wenjie Dong
Abstract
The post-1980 regional climate change increased dust AOD by +12.5 ± 15.0% and +43.6 ± 31.2% over the source and downstream areas respectively during a record-breaking dust storm in March 2021 in North China.
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