Abstract

As a kind of natural disasters, sand-dust storms frequently occur in deserts and their surrounding areas. The occurrence of this disaster in China’s northwest and north China has exerted an extremely adverse effect upon the environment in China. The management of sand-dust storms is of a systematic project closely related with the environment such as agriculture, ecosystem, forestry, water conservancy, meterology and other aspects. Therefore, studies of the formation, the basic features, causes, temporal-spatial distribution, developing-trend and related disasters of sand-dust storms in China are conducted based on satellite data. The experience of sand-dust storms control and countermeasures in the United States and some other countries are referred. Meanwhile, preliminary countermeasures relating to sand-dust storms in China are proposed.

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