The effect of roughness elements on wind erosion: The importance of surface shear stress distribution

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6066-6084

  Webb, Nicholas P ^a   Okin, Gregory S ^b   Brown, Shannon ^c  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DRAG; DUST; EROSION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR STRESS;

AEOLIAN TRANSPORT; AERODYNAMIC ROUGHNESS; DRAG PARTITION; DRYLAND; DUST EMISSION;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DRYLAND FARMING; DUST; EMISSION; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROUGHNESS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; WIND EROSION; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84902779620     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021491     Document Type: Article

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