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Asian dust en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Dust, sand, and other particulate matter from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan blown over China, Korea, and Japan in the spring.
    • In this case, Asian dust was transported by a downward moving low pressure and the altitude of Asian dust was below 3km. 2005, Nobuo Takeuchi, “Elastic Lidar Measurement of the Troposphere”, in Takashi Fujii, Tetsuo Fukuchi, editors, Laser Remote Sensing, CRC Press, page 81:

Translations (2)

ja 黄砂 (dust blown over east Asia) · fi Aasian pöly (dust blown over east Asia)