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DESERT MYTH AND CLIMATIC REALITY∗

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1981
ABSTRACT Students of the American frontier have assumed that the myth of the Great American Desert was derived from the notions of a few men rather than from the probable reality of the experienced environmental conditions. The “illusion’ of the Great American Desert has not been considered from a climatological perspective; no serious attempts have ...
MERLIN P. LAWSON, CHARLES W. STOCKTON
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Desert Environment and Climate Observation Network over the Taklimakan Desert

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2020
AbstractAs the second-largest shifting sand desert worldwide, the Taklimakan Desert (TD) represents the typical aeolian landforms in arid regions as an important source of global dust aerosols. It directly affects the ecological environment and human health across East Asia. Thus, establishing a comprehensive environment and climate observation network
Fan Yang   +28 more
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