Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

This paper reviews our current understanding of Quaternary climate and landscape changes
in the desert areas of northern China, a key portion of the middle-latitude drylands on Earth …

It is more than half a century since the publication of RA Bagnold's classic book The physics
of blown sand and desert dunes, and it is a tribute to the quality of Bagnold's work that many …

This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the
subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective. It covers the …

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 …

The sediment state of aeolian dune fields and sand seas at a basinal scale is defined by the
separate components of sediment supply, sediment availability and the transport capacity of …

Sand dunes form an important and unique system that can be mobile or fixed by vegetation.
The common mobility indices of sand dunes, which are related to the wind and the amount …

Although desert dunes cover 5 per cent of the global land surface and 30 per cent of Africa,
the potential impacts of twenty-first century global warming on desert dune systems are not …

In coastal dunes, landscape changes are a rule, rather than an exception. This paper gives
an overview of changes in landscape and vegetation with a focus on the past century. The …

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 …