Dust in the Critical Zone: North American case studies

J Brahney, RC Heindel, TE Gill, G Carling… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dust cycle facilitates the exchange of particles among Earth's major systems, enabling
dust to traverse ecosystems, cross geographic boundaries, and even move uphill against …

[图书][B] Geomorphology of desert dunes

N Lancaster - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Mesoscale structure of the atmospheric boundary layer across a natural roughness transition

J Cooke, D Jerolmack, GI Park - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The structure and intensity of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) drive
fluxes of sediment, contaminants, heat, moisture, and CO 2 at the Earth's surface. Where …

[HTML][HTML] Complementary classifications of aeolian dunes based on morphology, dynamics, and fluid mechanics

SC Du Pont, DM Rubin, C Narteau, MGA Lapôtre… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Dunes form where winds blow over a bed of mobile sediment grains–conditions that are
common in our solar system. On Earth, dunes abound in arid continental interiors and along …

What sets aeolian dune height?

A Gunn, G Casasanta, L Di Liberto, F Falcini… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wherever a loose bed of sand is subject to sufficiently strong winds, aeolian dunes form at
predictable wavelengths and growth rates. As dunes mature and coarsen, however, their …

Global surface winds and Aeolian sediment pathways on Mars from the morphology of barchan dunes

L Rubanenko, A Gunn, S Pérez‐López… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the absence of consistent meteorological data on Mars, the morphology of dunes can be
employed to study its atmosphere. Specifically, barchan dunes, which form under …

Local wind regime induced by giant linear dunes: comparison of ERA5-land reanalysis with surface measurements

C Gadal, P Delorme, C Narteau, GFS Wiggs… - Boundary-Layer …, 2022 - Springer
Emergence and growth of sand dunes results from the dynamic interaction between
topography, wind flow and sediment transport. While feedbacks between these variables are …

Conditions for aeolian transport in the solar system

A Gunn, DJ Jerolmack - Nature astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Sand dunes, which arise wherever loose sediment is mobilized by winds that exceed
threshold speed and grains are sufficiently strong to survive collisions, are ubiquitous in the …

Contemporary and future dust sources and emission fluxes from gypsum-and quartz-dominated eolian systems, New Mexico and Texas, USA

MR Sweeney, SL Forman, EV McDonald - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent research on dust emissions from eolian dunes seeks to improve regional and global
emissions estimates and knowledge of dust sources, particularly with a changing climate …

The diurnal cycle and temporal trends of surface winds

Y Ashkenazy, H Yizhaq - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Winds play an essential role in the climate system. In this study, we analyze the global
pattern of the diurnal cycle of surface (10 m) winds from the ERA5 reanalysis data. We find …