Threshold friction velocities of saltation sand particles for different soil moisture conditions in the Taklimakan Desert

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 184-187

  Ishizuka, Masahide ^a   Mikami, Masao ^b   Yamada, Yutaka ^c   Zeng, FanJiang ^d  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 80455145495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2009-047     Document Type: Article

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