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Asian dust

Asian dust noun: dust, sand, and other particulate matter from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan blown over China, Korea, and Japan in the spring.

Noun

Asian dust (uncountable)

  1. 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

Questions about Asian dust

What does Asian dust mean?
Asian dust means dust, sand, and other particulate matter from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan blown over China, Korea, and Japan in the spring.
What part of speech is Asian dust?
Asian dust is a noun.

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