Abstract:Based on the WRF-Chem model, a typical North Africa severe dust storm process in late March 2018 is simulated, and the key synoptic systems and dynamic mechanisms of the occurrence seasons, last period, local features and transmission paths are analyzed. Due to the dust emission is one of key points of dust storm happening,and the dust emission mainly depends on the wind force and the nature of the underlying surface of dust source, the research of the paper focuses on the effect comparison of three parameterization schemes of the dust emission, then the numerical simulation results are compared with the satellite MODIS monitoring and its reanalysis data Merra-2,also a series of statistical tests are done, the results shows that it may be related to the circulation systems and the dust storm source all being with large scales (the front span is close to 60 longitudes), the dust emission scheme Gocart is more suitable for the strong synoptic dust storm numerical simulation than both AFWA and UoC schemes. The dynamic mechanism analysis and numerical simulation results of the strong dust storm show that the key systems of the strong dust storm are a deep westerly trough, a dust cold front and a surface high-pressure anticyclone behind the front. The deep westerly trough in central North Africa is a backward inclined trough and the system is stable in circulations, it causes the dust storms lasts a long duration .The descending flow in the anticyclone behind the dust storm front inhibits the diffusion of dust to the upper layer, it causes poor visibility in the near surface layer. The strong dust front area is with dynamic, thermal and moisture dynamic instabilities, so the wind in the front area is stronger and its drive force to the ground dust is more powerfully. The westerly trough and strong anticyclone provide the long-distance transport force of dust to the three continents based on the circulations.