Aeolian Grain Transport: The Erosional Environment: 2 (Acta Mechanica. Supplementa) - Softcover

Barndorff-Nielsen, Ole E

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ISBN 10: 3211822747 ISBN 13: 9783211822746

Verlag: Springer, 2013

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Wind erosion has such a pervasive influence on environmental and agricultural matters that academic interest in it has been continuous for several decades. However, there has been a tendency for the resulting publications to be scattered widely in the scientific litera­ ture and consequently to provide a less coherent resource than might otherwise be hoped for. In particular, cross-reference between the literature on desert and coastal morphology, on the deterioration of wind affected soils, and on the process mechanics of the grain/air­ flow system has been disappointing. A successful workshop on "The Physics of Blown Sand", held in Aarhus in 1985, took a decisive step in collecting a research community with interests spanning geomorphology and grain/wind process mechanics. The identification of that Community was reinforced by the Binghampton Symposium on Aeolian Geomorphology in 1986 and has been fruitful in the development of a number of international collaborations. The objectives of the pre­ sent workshop, which was supported by a grant from the NATO Scientific Affairs Division, were to take stock of the progress in the five years to 1990 and to extend the scope of the community to include soil deterioration (and dust release) and those beach processes which link with aeolian activity on the coast.

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The first of two volumes, this book contains a collection of selected papers on a wide range of aspects of the natural transport and resorting of sand and soil. Apart from one paper on avalanches and a small number in which sea waves are also an agent, the papers deal exclusively with wind erosion. This second volume reviews the contributions to the literature of aeolian transport which have been published during the last five years, concentrating on soil degradation and desertification. The purpose of the workshop from which these volumes are drawn was to discuss work carried out during these five years but which has not, as yet, been published. The books examine several important field problem classes and a number of new observational techniques. This book of proceedings on geography (geomorphology), agriculture, sedimentology, civil engineering and statistics is intended for research teams, graduate students, senior undergraduates in some subjects, design teams and researchers.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3211822747
• ISBN 13: 9783211822746
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196