Effect of frozen ground on dust outbreaks in spring on the eastern Mongolian Plateau

Geomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 412-416

  Han, Lijian ^a   Tsunekawa, Atsushi ^a   Tsubo, Mitsuru ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dryland; Dust outbreak; Freeze thaw cycles; QuikSCAT

Indexed keywords

DUST STORM; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; FROZEN GROUND; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; QUIKSCAT; SPRING (SEASON);

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 79955045318     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Bartsch A., Kidd R.A., Wagner W., Bartalis Z. Temporal and spatial variability of beginning and end of daily spring freeze/thaw cycles derived from scatterometer data. Remote Sensing of Environment 2007, 106:360-374.
2. Engelstaedter S., Kohfeld K.E., Tegen I., Harrison S.P. Controls of dust emissions by vegetation and topographic depressions: an evaluation using dust storm frequency data. Geophysical Research Letters 2003, 30:1294.
3. Han L., Tsunekawa A., Tsubo M. Monitoring near-surface soil freeze-thaw cycles in northern China and Mongolia from 1998 to 2007. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 2010, 12:375-384.
4. Han, L., Tsunekawa, A., Tsubo, M., in press. Radar remote sensing of springtime near-surface soil thaw events at mid-latitudes. International Journal of Remote Sensing. doi:10.1080/01431161.2010.542203.
5. Henderson F.M., Lewis A.J. Principles and application of image radar 1998, 161-162. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
6. Ishizuka M., Mikami M., Yamada Y., Zeng F., Gao W. An observational study of soil moisture effects on wind erosion at a gobi site in the Taklimakan Desert. Journal of Geophysical Research 2005, 110:D18S03.
7. Kimball J.S., McDonald K.C., Frolking S., Running S.W. Radar remote sensing of the spring thaw transition across a boreal landscape. Remote Sensing of Environment 2004, 89:163-175.
8. Kimura R., Shinoda M. Spatial distribution of threshold wind speeds for dust outbreak in northeast Asia. Geomorphology 2010, 114:319-325.
9. Kimura R., Bai L., Wang J. Relationships among dust outbreak, vegetation cover, and surface soil water content on the Loess Plateau of China, 1999-2000. Catena 2009, 77:292-296.
10. Kurosaki Y., Mikami M. Recent frequent dust events and their relation to surface wind in Asia. Geophysical Research Letters 2003, 30:1736.
11. Kurosaki Y., Mikami M. Effect of snow cover on threshold wind velocity of dust outbreak. Geophysical Research Letters 2004, 31:D03106.
12. Kurosaki Y., Mikami M. Threshold wind speed for dust emission in East Asia and its seasonal variations. Journal of Geophysical Research 2007, 112:D17202.
13. McKenna-Neuman C. A review of aeolian transport processes in cold environments. Progress in Physical Geography 1993, 17:137-155.
14. McKenna-Neuman C., Nickling W.G. A theoretical and wind tunnel investigation of the effect of capillarity water on the entrainment of sediment by wind. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 1989, 69:79-96.
15. Setzer M. Modeling and testing the freeze-thaw attack by micro-ice-lens model and CDF/CIF-test. International RILEM Symposium on Concrete Science and Engineering: A Tribute to Arnon Bentur 2004, 17-27. RILEM Publications SARL, Illinois, U.S.
16. Tegen I., Harrison S.P., Kohfeld K., Prentice I.C., Coe M., Heimann M. Impact of vegetation and preferential source areas on global dust aerosol: results from a model study. Journal of Geophysical Research 2002, 107:4576.
17. Zhang B., Tsunekawa A., Tsubo M. Contributions of sandy lands and stony deserts to long-distance dust emission in China and Mongolia during 2000-2006. Global Planet Change 2008, 60:487-504.