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Asian dust
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English
Noun
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Dust, sand, and other particulate matter from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan blown over China, Korea, and Japan in the spring.
en 2005 Nobuo Takeuchi Elastic Lidar Measurement of the Troposphere Laser Remote Sensing Takashi Fujii; Tetsuo Fukuchi CRC Press 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
Finnish: fi Aasian pöly
Japanese: ja 黄砂 kōsa
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