Photo by: courtesy SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE. (All commercial use must be coordinated with ORBIMAGE)
Date: March 6, 2001
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Caption: Dust storms, such as those reflected in these satellite images of dust blown into the atmosphere over Asia from arid regions of China, have left a rich geological record in the form of loess deposits and ocean sediments. These newly-mined geological records, together with a sophisticated computer model of climate, are providing scientists with a new assessment of how the uplift of the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau affect climate over a broad swath of the world.