Quantifying dust emissions from desert landforms, eastern Mojave Desert, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 21-34

  Sweeney, Mark R ^a   McDonald, Eric V ^b   Etyemezian, Vicken ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust; Landforms; Mojave Desert; PI SWERL

Indexed keywords

BEACH; DESERT; DUNE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EROSION;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053608726     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.022     Document Type: Article

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