Modeling aeolian sediment transport thresholds on physically rough Martian surfaces: A shear stress partitioning approach

Geomorphology

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 15-21

  Gillies, John A ^a   Nickling, William G ^b   King, James ^c   Lancaster, Nicholas ^d  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeolian sediment transport thresholds; Mars; Shear stress partitioning

Indexed keywords

DRAG COEFFICIENT; ENTRAINMENT; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; MARS; MODELING; PLANETARY SURFACE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77953961312     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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