摘要: Dust storms have a number of impacts upon the environment including radiative forcing, and biogeochemical cycling. They transport material over many thousands kilometres. also range on humans, not least human health. In recent years identification source areas for dust has been an important area or research, with Sahara (especially Bodele) western China being recognised as strongest sources globally. Another major development recognition degree to which storm activity varied at time scales, millennial, century, decadal, annual seasonal.