Estimating total horizontal aeolian flux within shrub-invaded groundwater-dependent meadows using empirical and mechanistic models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1132-1146

  Vest, Kimberly R ^a   Elmore, Andrew J ^a   Kaste, James M ^b   Okin, Gregory S ^c   Li, Junran ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aeolian transport; desertification; groundwater; threshold shear velocity; total horizontal flux; wind erosion modeling

Indexed keywords

BARE SOIL; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER; MEADOW; MOBILIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VEGETATION COVER; WIND EROSION;

POACEAE;

EID: 84880728479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrf.20048     Document Type: Article

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