Several Scientific Issues of Studies on the Dust Storms
沙尘暴研究中的若干科学问题

During the recent years much more dust storm events occurred in Northern China. This has aroused general concern. In fact, dust storms do not only have effects on the air quality, traffic etc. , and cause soil erosion and damages of human being and domestic animals, but as a special species of atmos-pheric aerosols dust (or soil) particles also have significant climate and environment effects. This paper will briefly review the studies on the dust storms and some scientific issues which need to be investigated will be emphasized.