Dust Storm in Taklimakan Desert, Western China
February 21, 2013
At the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, a dust storm was brewing over the Taklimakan Desert (center) in April 2003. Ringed by the Kunlun Mountains to the south and the Tien Shan Mountains to the north, the dust storm was confined to the desert basin in this series of true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images.
Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Topics:
Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment, Asia, Sites along the Silk Road, Physical geography, Kunlun Mountains, Tian Shan, Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, Taklamakan desert, Dust storm, Ergs, Deserts and xeric shrublands, Palearctic, Geography of Tibet
