Jump to content

File:Spring Sandstorm Scours China.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (6,828 × 8,192 pixels, file size: 4.69 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Warning The original file is very high-resolution. It might not load properly or could cause your browser to freeze when opened at full size. Open in ZoomViewer

Summary

Description
English: The first day of spring brought a massive sandstorm to China. The sand and dust were swept thousands of kilometres south and east from the arid terrain of Inner Mongolia. The yellow dust reduced visibility and air quality to potentially hazardous levels in the nation’s capital (Beijing), and as far away as Taiwan and Japan. Few landmarks or topographic features are recognizable beneath the dust, which covers the lower half of the image and wraps around the right-hand side in a comma shape that terminates in a large ball of dust near image centre. This pattern is consistent with the passing of a cold weather front bearing a strong area of low pressure at the surface. These weather systems, known as mid-latitude cyclones, are often associated with giant comma-shaped clouds that reveal how air from a very wide area gets drawn in toward the low-pressure heart of the storm.
Date
Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author NASA MODIS Rapid Response Team

Image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.

Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:
Annotations
InfoField
This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

23 March 2010

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current10:46, 23 March 2010Thumbnail for version as of 10:46, 23 March 20106,828 × 8,192 (4.69 MB)Originalwana{{Information |Description={{en|1=The first day of spring brought a massive sandstorm to China. The sand and dust were swept thousands of kilometres south and east from the arid terrain of Inner Mongolia. The [[:Category:Yel

The following 3 pages use this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata