"Yellow Dust" redirects here. For the 1936 American film, see Yellow Dust (film).
Yellow Dust (China Dust)
Dust clouds leaving mainland China and traveling toward Korea and Japan
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
黃沙
Simplified Chinese
黄沙
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Huángshā
Bopomofo
ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄕㄚ
Wade–Giles
huang2 sha1
Tongyong Pinyin
huang2 sha1
Wu
Romanization
waon平 so平(Wuu Pinyin) IPA:[ɦuaŋso]
Hakka
Romanization
vong11 sa24
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
wong4 sa1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
hong2 sê1
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese
bão cát vàng
Korean name
Hangul
황사
Hanja
黃沙 or 黃砂
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization
Hwangsa
McCune–Reischauer
hwang-sa
Japanese name
Kanji
黄砂
Kana
こうさ
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn
kōsa
Kunrei-shiki
kôsa
Nihon-shiki
kôsa
China dust soars in the arid regions of mainland China and rides on the wind to descend to regions such as Japan.[1]
Asian Dust (also yellow dust, yellow sand, yellow wind or China dust storms) is a meteorological phenomenon that affects much of East Asia year-round and especially during the spring months. The dust originates in the deserts of China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan, where high-speed surface winds and intense dust storms kick up dense clouds of fine, dry soil particles. These clouds are then carried eastward by prevailing winds and pass over China, North and South Korea, and Japan, as well as parts of the Russian Far East. Sometimes, the airborne particulates are carried much further, in significant concentrations which affect air quality as far east as the United States.
Since the turn of the 21st century, coinciding with the rapid industrialization of China, yellow dust has become a serious health problem due to the increase of industrial pollutants contained in the dust. Intensified desertification due to deforestation has been causing longer and more frequent occurrences. The issue has been exacerbated as the Aral Sea of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has largely dried up. This started in the 1960s with the diversion of the Amu River and Syr River, as part of a Soviet agricultural program to irrigate Central Asian deserts, mainly for cotton plantations.
^"気象庁｜黄砂に関する基礎知識". www.data.jma.go.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved January 2, 2021.
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