What is Asian Dust?
[[File:Asian Dust Over Aizu-Wakamatsu Japan.PNG|right|thumb|Asian Dust covers the sun in Japan on April 2nd, 2007]] '''Asian Dust''' (also '''yellow dust''', '''yellow sand''', '''yellow wind''', or '''China dust storms''') is a weather occurrence that happens each year. It affects much of [[East Asia]] during the spring. The [[dust]] comes from [[desert]]s in [[Mongolia]], northern [[China]], and [[Kazakhstan]]. The dust comes from surface winds and [[dust storm]]s in the desert. The wind carries the clouds eastward to China, [[Japan]], Eastern Siberia, and the Koreas. Smaller particles in the clouds can travel much farther to places like the [[United States]]. In the last ten years, these dust storms have become a serious problem because they have picked up industrial [[pollution|pollutants]]. ==Other websites== * [http://yellow.metri.re.kr/index_e.html Asian Dust in Korea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503214845/http://yellow.metri.re.kr/index_e.html |date=2007-05-03 }} * Ostapuk, Paul [http://www.lakepowell.net/asiandust.htm Asian Dust Clouds] * Szykman, Jim et al.[http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/aqtrnd03/pdfs/1_asiandust.pdf Impact of April 2001 Asian Dust Event on Particulate Matter Concentrations in the United States] * Kwon Ho-Jang et al.[http://yellow.metri.re.kr/study/study_e_2002_01.pdf Effects of the Asian Dust Events on Daily Mortality in Seoul, Korea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927175254/http://yellow.metri.re.kr/study/study_e_2002_01.pdf |date=2007-09-27 }} * [http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/hotitems/asiandust.html Carbon Monoxide Measurements in the Mongolian Desert Dust Cloud at Boulder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040229085352/http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/hotitems/asiandust.html |date=2004-02-29 }} * [http://www.lbk.ars.usda.gov/wewc/biblio/bar.htm The Bibliography of Aeolian Research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607133912/http://www.lbk.ars.usda.gov/wewc/biblio/bar.htm |date=2017-06-07 }} [[Category:Weather events]] {{sc