Particle lifting at the soil-air interface by atmospheric pressure excursions in dust devils

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Balme, Matthew ^a,b   Hagermann, Axel ^b  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; DUST; PACKED BEDS; PHASE INTERFACES; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

AIR INTERFACE; COMPETING PROCESS; CONVECTIVE VORTICES; DRAG FORCES; DUST DEVILS; MARS LANDERS; P EFFECT; PRESSURE REGIONS; QUALITATIVE PREDICTIONS; SIMPLE MODEL; VERTICAL PRESSURE;

PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 49549112139     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026819     Document Type: Article

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