The effect of vegetation patterns on wind-blown mass transport at the regional scale: A wind tunnel experiment

Geomorphology

Volumn 159-160, Issue , 2012, Pages 178-188

  Youssef, Feras ^a,c   Visser, Saskia M ^a   Karssenberg, Derek ^b   Erpul, Gunay ^c   Cornelis, Wim M ^d   Gabriels, Donald ^d   Poortinga, Ate ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Vegetation pattern; Wind erosion; Wind tunnel; Wind blown mass transport

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; MASS TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VEGETATION COVER; WIND EROSION; WIND TUNNEL;

ATRIPLEX HALIMUS;

EID: 84861699058     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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