The apparent roughness of a sand surface blown by wind from an analytical model of saltation

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pahtz T ^a   Kok, J F ^b,c   Herrmann, H J ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN SAND; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; SAND TRANSPORT RATE; WIND SHEARS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84860459214     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/043035     Document Type: Article

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