Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Aeolian Processes and Landforms - Themed Topic, October 2008

Aeolian Processes and Landforms – Themed Topic, October 2008

The last two decades has seen a revolution in our ability to measure Aeolian processes and to model Aeolian landforms. This themed issue brings together recent papers published in ESPL on this topic, addressing the transport of sand, deposition and erosion processes in relation to Aeolian landforms and the role played by key drivers such as wind. It demonstrates the vibrant nature of Aeolian research but also points to important new research directions.

Articles in this issue:

Synthesis of recent ESPL research: aeolian processes and landforms

Joanna E. Bullard

Measurement of water content as a control of particle entrainment by wind

Cheryl McKenna Neuman, Greg Langston

The effects of surface moisture on aeolian sediment transport threshold and mass flux on a beach

Robin G. D. Davidson-Arnott, Yanqi Yang, Jeff Ollerhead, Patrick A. Hesp, Ian J. Walker

The effect of single vegetation elements on wind speed and sediment transport in the Sahelian zone of Burkina Faso

J. K. Leenders, J. H. van Boxel, G. Sterk

Aeolian sediment transport on a human-altered foredune

Karl F. Nordstrom, Nancy L. Jackson, Jean Marie Hartman, Mark Wong

Embryo dune development on a large, actively accreting macrotidal beach: Calais, North Sea coast of France

Edward J. Anthony, Stéphane Vanhée, Marie-Hélène Ruz

Aeolian fetch distance and secondary airflow effects: the influence of micro-scale variables on meso-scale foredune development

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1582/abstract

Kevin Lynch, Derek W. T. Jackson, J. Andrew G. Cooper

Morphodynamics and climate controls of two aeolian blowouts on the northern Great Plains, Canada

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1367/abstract

C. H. Hugenholtz, S. A. Wolfe

Dune phases in the Otaki-Te Horo area (New Zealand): a geomorphic history

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.1292/abstract

R. M. Hawke, J. A. McConchie

The termination of the last major phase of aeolian sand movement, coastal dunefields, Denmark

Lars B. Clemmensen, Andrew Murray

Wind erodibility of soils at Fort Irwin, California (Mojave Desert), USA, before and after trampling disturbance: implications for land management

J. Belnap, S. L. Phillips, J. E. Herrick, J. R. Johansen

Erodibility of some crust forming soils/sediments from the Southern Aral Sea Basin as determined in a wind tunnel

E. Argaman, A. Singer, H. Tsoar

Wind erosion of blanket peat during a short period of surface desiccation (North Pennines, Northern England)

Simon A. Foulds, Jeff Warburton

Dust emission from wet and dry playas in the Mojave Desert, USA

Richard L. Reynolds, James C. Yount, Marith Reheis, Harland Goldstein, Pat Chavez Jr., Robert Fulton, John Whitney, Christopher Fuller, Richard M. Forester

Aeolian deposition of dust over hills: the effect of dust grain size on the deposition pattern

Dirk Goossens

Dust deposition near an eroding source field

L. J. Hagen, S. Van Pelt, T. M. Zobeck, A. Retta