Dust storm: Nature's revenge on humans

Author: Ren Zhenhai, Gao Qingxian
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This book is part of the "Protecting the Mother River Action Education Series." It includes the definition, intensity classification, and disaster analysis of sandstorms; the sources of sandstorms, the relationship between desertification and sandstorms, the characteristics of desertification in China, and the impact of human activities on sandstorm weather; the conditions for the formation of sandstorms; the sandstorm sources affecting China and their influence on atmospheric environmental quality and transmission pathways; modern monitoring and analysis methods for sandstorms; countermeasures and suggestions to mitigate the impact of sandstorms. This book is suitable for, especially middle and high school students, to read, as well as for ecological environment workers, leaders and staff of relevant government departments, and students and teachers in related fields.