Equations for the near-surface mass flux density profile of wind-blown sediments

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1292-1299

  Dong, Zhibao ^a,b   Lu, Junfeng ^a   Man, Duoqing ^a,c   Lv, Ping ^a   Qian, Guanqiang ^a   Zhang, Zhengcai ^a   Luo, Wanyin ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Gansu Minqin National Studies Station for Desert Steppe Ecosystem and Gansu Desert Control Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Aeolian sediment transport; Mass flux density profiles; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; FIELD DATA; FLUX DENSITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; MASS FLUX DENSITY; MASS FLUX DENSITY PROFILES; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; NEAR-SURFACE; POWER FUNCTIONS; SUSPENSION PARTICLES; WIND EROSION; WIND EROSIONS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EROSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS;

EOLIAN PROCESS; MASS TRANSPORT; PARTICLE MOTION; SALTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WIND EROSION;

CHINA; GANSU; MINQIN;

EID: 79960386257     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2151     Document Type: Article

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