Abstract As the main dust source area in East Asia, Gobi Desert (GD) exerts critical impacts on radiation budget downstream regions. Dust radiative feedback GD Mongolian cyclone, however, remains poorly understood. Herein, dynamic is coupled with Weather Research and Forecasting model Chemistry (WRF-Chem) for better simulations. Results show that cyclone dominates event May 2019. results downwa...

CUACE/Dust, an operational mesoscale sand and dust storm (SDS) forecasting system for East Asia, has been developed by online coupling a dust aerosol emission scheme and dust aerosol microphysics onto a regional meteorological model with improved advection and diffusion schemes and a detailed Northeast Asia soil erosion database. With improved initial dust aerosol conditions through a 3-DVar da...

The paper describes the performance of the Dust Regional Atmospheric Model (DREAM) after being nested within the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP/eta) operational weather model. The model system is designed to simulate dust entrainment, transport, and concentration under changing atmospheric and terrestrial conditions to better forecast dust episodes that impose health outcom...

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract Heterogeneous processes on dust particles are important for understanding the chemistry and radiative balance of the atmosphere. This paper investigates an intense Asian dust storm episode observed at Mount Heng (1250...

The effect of desert dust on cloud properties and precipitation has so far been studied solely by using theoretical models, which predict that rainfall would be enhanced. Here we present observations showing the contrary; the effect of dust on cloud properties is to inhibit precipitation. Using satellite and aircraft observations we show that clouds forming within desert dust contain small drop...