Characteristics of near-surface wind regimes in the Taklimakan Desert, China

Geomorphology

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 39-47

  Zu, Ruiping ^a   Xue, Xian ^a   Qiang, Mingrui ^b   Yang, Bao ^a   Qu, Jianjun ^a   Zhang, Kecun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Annual mean wind velocity; Drift potential; Sand dust storms; Taklimakan Desert; Wind direction

Indexed keywords

DESERT; DUST STORM; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 47049125022     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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