Wind tunnel experiments of air flow patterns over nabkhas modeled after those from the Hotan River basin, Xinjiang, China (I): Non-vegetated

Frontiers of Earth Science in China

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-339

  Li, Zhizhong ^a   Wu, Shengli ^a   Dale, Janis ^b   Ge, Lin ^a   He, Mudan ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^a   Jin, Jianhui ^a   Ma, Rong ^a   Liu, Jinwei ^a   Li, Wanjuan ^a  

^a XINJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nabkha; Sand mounds; Wind flow pattern; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; MODELING; VORTEX; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; HOTAN RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 48349131046     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-008-0019-8     Document Type: Article

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