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Changes in Dust Activity in Spring over East Asia under a Global Warming Scenario

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Dust activity not only influences human health through dust storms but also affects climate at local and regional scales through the direct effects of dust aerosols on both solar and longwave radiative heating. In this study, based on dust simulations from seven Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models, the spatial and temporal changes in dust activity over East Asia under a Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 global warming scenario were examined for the periods of 2016–2035 (P1), 2046–2065 (P2) and 2080–2099 (P3). The results show that the multimodel ensemble mean (MME) of the CMIP5 models largely captures the spatial distribution of dust emissions and dust optical depth (DOD) over East Asia during 1986–2005 (P0). The MME reproduces the increasing trend in dust emissions and DOD over dust sources in East Asia during P0. Accompanying emission reductions during P1 to P3, the DOD simultaneously decreases, and the evident DOD decline can also be found over downwind areas in eastern China and the Korean Peninsula. Simulations project increases in precipitation and the LAI (leaf area index). Simultaneously, the weakened East Asian trough leads to anomalous southerly winds and lower wind speeds at the surface. All these results indicate unfavorable conditions for dust emissions over the sources regions, resulting in a decreased DOD over East Asia during P1 to P3.

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We thank Prof. Yaping Shao and Dr. Martina Klose for analyzing the dust observations from the global Met Office Integrated Data Archive System, UK Meteorological Office. This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFA0602401). Mao was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41571039, 41730639). Q. Zong is supported by the Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster and Engineering Research Center of Desertification and Blownsand Control. We would like to thank the high-performance computing support from the Center for Geodata and Analysis, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University [https://gda.bnu.edu.cn/].

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    Qi Zong & Rui Mao

  2. MOE, Engineering Research Center of Desertification and Blown–sand Control, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Qi Zong & Rui Mao

  3. Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Faculty of Geographic Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Qi Zong, Rui Mao, Dao-Yi Gong, Xingya Feng & Yijie Sun

  4. Institute of Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Chenglai Wu

  5. Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Bing Pu

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Zong, Q., Mao, R., Gong, DY. et al. Changes in Dust Activity in Spring over East Asia under a Global Warming Scenario. Asia-Pacific J Atmos Sci 57, 839–850 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13143-021-00224-7

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