Quantifying relationships of burning, roughness, and potential dust emission with laser altimetry of soil surfaces at submeter scales

Geomorphology

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 181-190

  Sankey, Joel B ^a   Eitel, Jan U H ^b   Glenn, Nancy F ^a   Germino, Matthew J ^a   Vierling, Lee A ^b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeolian transport; LiDAR; Microsite; Potential dust emission; Shrub steppe; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BURNING; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS; LIDAR; PARAMETERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 80053585962     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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