Fig. 1

Elevation of the study area and location of high-value floating dust weather monitoring site"

Fig. 2

Characteristics of inter-annual variability of persistent floating dust days"

Fig. 3

Near-surface weather patterns correspond to sea level pressure fields and 10 m wind fields"

Tab. 1

Characteristics of monthly changes in the number of occurrences of three types of near-surface weather patterns on persistent floating dust days"

Tab. 2

Characteristics of PM10 concentration and daily average values of meteorological elements at each station in the Tarim Basin under various near-surface weather patterns"

Fig. 4

Characteristics of the PM10 concentrations in the Tarim Basin under various near-surface weather patterns"

Fig. 5

500 hPa and 700 hPa weather patterns corresponding to the geopotential height field, wind field and temperature field"

Fig. 6

Configuration of high-low-altitude weather systems (a) and configuration of high-low-altitude and near-surface weather systems (b)"

Fig. 7

Characteristics of PM10 concentrations in the Tarim Basin under the configuration of high-low-altitude and near-surface weather systems"

Fig. 8

Sea-level pressure field, 10 m wind field and 500 hPa geopotential height field, temperature field and wind field for a typical persistent floating dust process in May 2016"

Tab. 3

Changes in the high-low-altitude weather systems in the Tarim Basin during a typical persistent floating dust process in May 2016"

Tab. 4

Characteristics of PM10 concentrations and meteorological elements variation at stations around the Tarim Basin during a typical persistent floating dust process in May 2016"

Fig. 9

Temperature change (℃), vertical velocity (10-2 m·s-1) and zonal wind and vertical velocity synthetic vector along 39°N profile(a-c) with divergence field (10-4 s-1) along 39°N profile (d-f) during start (a, d), development (b, e), and ending (c, f) phases of a typical persistent floating dust process in May 2016"