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Fig. 2

From: Characterization and regional variations in the mineralogical maturity of aeolian sands in northern China

Fig. 2

Spatial distributions of the (a). annual mean precipitation and (b). annual mean temperature in China during 2011–2020. (Western Deserts: 1. Taklamakan Desert, 2. Gurbantunggut Desert, 3. Qaidam Desert, 4. Kumtag Desert; Central Deserts: 5. Badain Jaran Desert, 6. Tengger Desert, 7. Ulan Buh Desert, 8. Kubuqi Desert, 9. Mu Us Sandy Land; Northeastern Sandy Lands: 10. Hunshandake Sandy Land, 11. Horqin Sandy Land, 12. Hulunbeir Sandy Land.) (The Fig. 2 was produced using ArcGIS Desktop 10.6 (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, USA). The data were derived from the Climate Research Unit Time Series (CRU TS) version 4.06 dataset published by the National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/).)

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