The effect of slopes on sand transport - Numerical modelling

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 171-181

  Tsoar, Haim ^a   White, Bruce ^b   Berman, Eugene ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Climbing dune; Numerical modelling; Sand transport; Slopes

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DEPOSIT; CLIMBING DUNE; SALTATION; SAND; SAND TRANSPORT; SLOPE; TRANSPORT;

EID: 0029731861     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-2046(95)00235-9     Document Type: Article

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