Modelling controls on aeolian dune-field pattern evolution

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1391-1406

  Eastwood, Erin ^a   Nield, Joanna ^b   Baas, Andreas ^c   Kocurek, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aeolian sediment transport; Cellular automata; Dune field pattern; Landscape evolution; Modelling; Sand dunes

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; CREST LENGTH; DUNE FIELDS; DUNE-FIELD PATTERN; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SIMULATION; MODELLING; PATTERN EVOLUTION; SAND DUNES; SEDIMENT AVAILABILITY; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SOURCE TO SINKS; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; SPATIAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT CAPACITY; WIND STRENGTH;

AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

BEDFORM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUNE; DUNE FIELD; DUNE FORMATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052878686     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01216.x     Document Type: Article

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