Horizontal wind erosion flux and potential dust emission in arid and semiarid regions of China: A major source area for East Asia dust storms

Catena

Volumn 133, Issue , 2015, Pages 373-384

  Wang, Haibing ^a   Jia, Xiaopeng ^a   Li, Kuan ^b   Li, Yongshan ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Land Investigation and Planning Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Dust storm; Horizontal wind erosion flux; Northern China; PM10 dust emission; Sand trap

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATIC REGION; DATA SET; DUST; EMISSION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GRAIN SIZE; LANDSCAPE; MARINE POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED LOAD; WIND EROSION;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84934925960     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2015.06.011     Document Type: Article

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