Sand dune mobility under climate change in the Kalahari and Australian deserts

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 901-923

  Ashkenazy, Y ^a   Yizhaq, H ^a   Tsoar, Haim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DUNE FIELDS; DUNE MOBILITY; ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL MAP; KALAHARI; PRECIPITATION RATES; REANALYSIS; SAND DUNES; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

ARID REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; WIND POWER;

LANDFORMS;

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUNE; DUNE FIELD; MOBILITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VEGETATION COVER; WIND POWER;

AUSTRALIA; KALAHARI BASIN; KALAHARI DESERT;

EID: 84860919867     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0264-9     Document Type: Article

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