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In situ observation of warm atmospheric layer and the heat contribution of suspended dust over the Tarim Basin
Chenglong Zhou
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Qingzhe Zhu
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Qing He
Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan National Station of Observation and Research for Desert Meteorology in Xinjiang, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan Desert Meteorology Field Experiment Station, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Tianliang Zhao
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Key Laboratory for Aerosol–Cloud–Precipitation of China Meteorological Administration, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Fan Yang
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Collaborative Innovation Center for Western Ecological Safety, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan National Station of Observation and Research for Desert Meteorology in Xinjiang, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan Desert Meteorology Field Experiment Station, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Xinghua Yang
Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan National Station of Observation and Research for Desert Meteorology in Xinjiang, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan Desert Meteorology Field Experiment Station, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Ali Mamtimin
Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan National Station of Observation and Research for Desert Meteorology in Xinjiang, Urumqi 830002, China
Taklimakan Desert Meteorology Field Experiment Station, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi 830002, China
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Based on the radiosonde observations, an anomalously warm layer is measured at altitudes between 500 and 300 hPa over the Tarim Basin (TB) with an average intensity of 2.53 and 1.39 K in the spring and summer, respectively. The heat contributions of dust to this anomalously warm atmospheric layer in spring and summer were 13.77 and 10.25 %, respectively. Topographically, the TB is adjacent to the Tibetan Plateau; we propose the concept of the Tibetan heat source’s northward extension.
Based on the radiosonde observations, an anomalously warm layer is measured at altitudes between...
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