Gustiness and coherent structure of strong winds and their role in dust emission and entrainment

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Zeng, Qingcun ^a   Cheng, Xueling ^a   Hu, Fei ^a   Peng, Zhen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coherent structure; Descending motion; Dust entrainment; Dust storm; Gust wind; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949673110     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-8207-3     Document Type: Article

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