https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817605009
Lidar network observation of dust layer evolution over the Gobi Desert in MAY 2013
1
Nagoya University, Japan
2
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
3
National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring, Mongolia
* kawai.kei@e.mbox.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Published online: 13 April 2018
A lidar network captured the evolution of a dust layer in the Gobi Desert on 22–23 May 2013. The lidar network consists of a ceilometer and two AD-Net lidars in Mongolia. The dust layer was generated by a strong wind due to a cold front and elevated over the surface of the cold front by an updraft of the warm air in the cold-front system. It was evolving from the atmospheric boundary layer to the free troposphere while moving 600 km through the desert with the cold front.
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