Giant saltation on Mars

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6222-6226

  Almeida, Murilo P ^a   Parteli, Eric J R ^a   Andrade Jr , José S ^a,b   Herrmann, Hans J ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aeolian transport; Critical phenomena; Granular flows; Particle laden flows; Turbulent flows

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAND; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY; WIND EROSION;

EID: 44449148324     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800202105     Document Type: Article

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