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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 1646-1652.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2015.00262

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Research Progress of Dust Storms in the Taklimakan Desert

Guo Caiyun1,2, Han Zhiwen1, Li Aimin1,2,3   

  1. 1. Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3. Department of Resources and Environment, Heze University, Heze 274015, Shandong, China
  • Received:2015-09-06 Revised:2015-11-12 Online:2016-11-20 Published:2016-11-20

Abstract: As the largest desert in China and the second-largest flow desert in the world, the Taklimakan Desert is one of major centers of China's dust storm and loess depositions, and it also play an important role in the natural environment and the ecological pattern of the northern China and Eurasian Continent. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to investigate the dust storm in the Taklimakan Desert. This review firstly summarized the important progress of the process and the numerical simulation prediction of the dust storm in the Taklimakan Desert, as well as illustrated the characteristics and the formation of the dust storm, and then put forward the scientific issues needed to be solved urgently.

Key words: Taklimakan Desert, sand source, desertification, dust storm

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