Bayan Mod

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Proper noun

Bayan Mod

1. A sumu in Alxa Left, Alxa, Inner Mongolia, in northern China.
   • 1988, Manfred Domrös, Peng Gongbing, “Climate Zones of China”, in The Climate of China‎^[1], Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 262:

     The annual variation of precipitation shows a clear summer maximum which, however, becomes weaker or is nearly extinguished in Northwest China. Evidence is given by comparing the annual variation of precipitation for Bayan Mod/252 with Ürümqi/269 and Altay/270, and by considering the portions of precipitation for winter and summer: […]

   • 1997, “Northwest China”, in East Asia: A Climatological Study. Volume 1: Continental‎^[2], →OCLC, page 4-117:

     Bayan Mod, in the heart of the Badain Jaran Jesert, is especially dry during the winter. It receives only 5.8 mm of precipitation. This 5-month total represents barely 5 percent of the annual precipitation total of 100 mm.

   • 2001, Yoriko Yokoo, Takanori Nakano, Masataka Nishikawa, Hao Quan, “The Importance of Sr Isotopic Compositions as an Indicator of Acid-Soluble Minerals in Arid Soils in China”, in Acid rain 2000: Proceedings from the 6th International Conference on Acidic Deposition: Looking back to the past and thinking of the future, Tsukuba, Japan, 10-16 December 2000 : conference statement, plenary and keynote papers‎^[3], Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 765:

     The ratios of Mg to Ca were around 0.16 (ranging from 0.14 at Bayan Mod to 0.25 at Badaijilin), although there is a possibility that a part of Mg is present as dolomitic calcite (Quan et al., 1994).

   • 2019, Fangen Hu, Xiaoping Yang, Hongwei Li, “Origin and morphology of barchan and linear clay dunes in the Shuhongtu Basin, Alashan Plateau, China”, in Geomorphology‎^[4], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:

     At Bayan Mod, the dominant winds are from the NW (Fig. 1), driven by the winter monsoon blowing from the Siberian High Pressure, with DP and RDD of 280.8 vector units (VU) and 120.5°, respectively.

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sumu

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