The effect of wind speed and bed slope on sand transport

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 723-731

  Iversen, James D ^a   Rasmussen, Keld R ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bed slope; Sand transport; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND TUNNEL;

SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0032729572     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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