Principles of sand dune fixation with straw checkerboard technology and its effects on the environment

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 449-464

  Qiu, Guo Yu ^a,b,f   Lee, In Bok ^c   Shimizu, Hideyuki ^b   Gao, Yong ^b,d   Ding, Guodong ^e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c Natl Agric Mechanization Res I   (South Korea)

^d INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model; Roughness length; Sand dune fixation; Straw checkerboard

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DUNE; SAND; SOIL REMEDIATION; SOIL STABILIZATION; STRAW; WIND BREAK;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0346401532     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-1963(03)00066-1     Document Type: Article

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