For more than four decades remote sensing images have been used to document and
understand the evolution of aeolian sand dunes. Early studies focused on mapping and …

Sand dunes are one of the most abundant aeolian landforms and play an important role in
understanding how aeolian environments evolve. Since the 1970s, remote sensing has …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 GEOMORPHOLOGY OF DESERT DUNES Sand dunes cover up to a
quarter of many desert regions. Determining the factors that determine their shape, size and …

Wind blowing over sand on Earth produces decimeter-wavelength ripples and hundred-
meter–to kilometer-wavelength dunes: bedforms of two distinct size modes. Observations …

Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, this volume provides a
state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly …

One explanation for bedform patterns is self‐organization in which the pattern emerges
because of interactions among the bedforms themselves. Models, remote images, field …

Temporal fluctuations of wind strength and direction can influence aeolian bedform
morphology and orientation, which can be encoded into the architecture of aeolian deposits …

The White Sands Dune Field, situated within the Tularosa Basin in southern New Mexico, is
thought to have been largely derived by a stepwise, progressive deflation of Pleistocene …

Aeolian dune-field patterns reflect the complex external environment within which the
pattern evolves. These external environmental controls are the boundary conditions on …

Quartz sand dominates aeolian deposits in arid regions, as dust-sized particles are carried
out of the desert entirely or are trapped by vegetation or rough surfaces on desert margins …