OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aeolian Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Increased Shamal winds and dust activity over the Arabian Peninsula during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020	74
Assessing the PM10 emission potential of sandy, dryland soils in South Africa using the PI-SWERL	51
A cross-comparison of threshold friction velocities for PM10 emissions between a traditional portable straight-line wind tunnel and PI-SWERL	43
CCN and INP activity of middle eastern soil dust	40
Editorial Board	36
Chronology and dust mass accumulation history of the Wenchuan loess on eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last glacial	28
Evaluation of minerals being deposited in the Red Sea using gravimetric, size distribution, and mineralogical analysis of dust deposition samples collected along the Red Sea coastal plain	25
Dome dunes: Distribution and morphology	25
Editorial Board	20
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A modified resultant drift potential for more accurate prediction of sand transportation in the vicinity of the Keeler Dunes, California	19
Morphology and distribution of Martian wedge dunes and their terrestrial analogs	18
Editorial Board	18
Quantifying dust emission potential of playa and desert surfaces in the Salton Sea Air Basin, California, United States	16
Effects of recombinant synthetic organic and mineral mulches on physicomechanical properties of erodible soils using wind tunnel	16
Editorial Board	16
The aeolian component inferred from lake sediments in China	15
Evaluation of the dustiness of fugitive dust sources using gravitational drop tests	14
Age and source of coastal loess in Shandong Peninsula, Bohai Sea, China: Implications for dust aggradation in respond to sea-level change	14
Experimental investigation to mitigate aeolian erosion via biocementation employed with a novel ureolytic soil isolate	13
Seasonal variations in threshold wind speed for saltation depending on soil temperature and vegetation: A case study in the Gobi Desert	12
Influence of sampling approaches on physical and geochemical analysis of aeolian dust in source regions	12
Surface wind strength and sea surface temperature connections along the south peruvian coast during the last 150 years	11
Modelled direct causes of dust emission change (2001–2020) in southwestern USA and implications for management	11
The distribution and nature of star dunes: A global analysis	11

High-resolution portable-OSL analysis of Vegetated Linear Dune construction in the margins of the northwestern Negev dunefield (Israel) during the late Quaternary	10
Using the Boruta algorithm and deep learning models for mapping land susceptibility to atmospheric dust emissions in Iran	10
Regional differences in the grain size characteristics of surface sediments from typical barchan dunes in arid zones	9
Parameterizing an aeolian erosion model for rangelands	9
Comparison of equilibrium sand transport rate model predictions with an extended dataset of field experiments at dry beaches with long fetch distance	8
Constant stress layer characteristics in simulated stratified air flows: Implications for aeolian transport	8
Automatic identification of saltating tracks driven by strong wind in high-speed video using multiple statistical quantities of instant particle velocity	8
Editorial Board	8
The indicative significance of grain size end-members and quartz surface microtextural features in Beglitsa loess sections at the Sea of Azov	8
Limitations of applying grain weight similitude in aeolian studies with NASA Mars Wind Tunnel	8
Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks of heavy metals in windborne sediments from a residential area (Case study: Tabas, Iran)	8
Air flow and scour patterns around erosion control elements	8
ZIBARS: Distribution, morphology and environmental controls	7
Near-surface structure of a large linear dune and an associated crossing dune of the northern Namib Sand Sea from Ground Penetrating Radar: Implications for the history of large linear dunes on Earth	7
Morphological dynamics of a trough-shaped blowout on a fixed dune in China	7
The influence of backdune morphology on air flow dynamics through an excavated foredune notch	7
Editorial Board	7
Late Quaternary aeolian environments, luminescence chronology and climate change for the Monahans dune field, Winkler County, West Texas, USA	7
Reconstructing star dune dynamics using ground penetrating radar – How movement shapes complex surface structures	7
Wind erosion control using carboxymethyl cellulose: From sand bombardment performance to microfabric analysis	7
Experimental evidence of dust flux size distribution variation along two consecutive erosion seasons	7
Vortex core regions of nebkhas and their implications on shadow dune formation	7
Aeolian creep transport: A review	6
Adhesion theory and model for air humidity impact on dust emission	6
Management effects on glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in the PM10 emitted by soils of the central semi-arid region of Argentina	6
Spatiotemporal distribution and variation of wind erosion over the Tibetan Plateau based on a coupled land-surface wind-erosion model	6
Late Quaternary eolian dune-field mobilization and stabilization near the Laurentide Ice Sheet limit, New Jersey Pine Barrens, eastern USA	6
Landscape structure model based estimation of the wind erosion risk in Brandenburg, Germany	6
An application of CNN to classify barchan dunes into asymmetry classes	6
Use of digital photogrammetry and LiDAR techniques to quantify time-series dune volume estimates of the Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	6
Characterizing variability in geochemistry and mineralogy of western US dust sources	6
How wind direction and building spacing influences airflow patterns and sediment transport patterns around a row of beach buildings: A numerical study	5
Implications of gravel content on aerodynamic parameters, sand flux, erosion and accumulation during deflation processes over Gobi	5
Grain size analysis of the latest Quaternary Kordofan Sand of Central Sudan: Depositional environment and mode of transportation	5
Editorial Board	5
Vegetation, hydrology, and sand movement interactions on the Slate Canyon alluvial fan-Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	5
Investigating threshold wind velocity for movement of sparsely distributed gravels in a wind tunnel: Effect of surface coarseness	5
Variation of bed microtopography with time around an isolated surface-mounted cylindrical roughness element and its influence on wind flow	5
Aeolian sand transport: Scaling of mean saltation length and height and implications for mass flux scaling	5
Aeolian dunes morphodynamics and wind regime reconstruction in mid-latitudes of the Gondwana during Early Permian, Aracaré Formation, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil	5
Effect of bagasse lignocellulose microfibers on sand stabilization: A laboratory study	5
High resolution luminescence chronology of coastal dune deposits near Chumphon, Western Gulf of Thailand	5
Charges of individual sand grains in natural windblown sand fluxes	4
Heavy minerals of the aeolian sediments in the East Slovak Basin (Western Carpathians) – Implications for their origin, transport process and sedimentary history	4
CO2-induced carbonate minerals as soil stabilizing agents for dust suppression	4
Editorial Board	4
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Dynamic processes of dust emission from gobi: A portable wind tunnel study atop the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China	4
Speculation on an early Pleistocene origin of the Parker dunes of southwest Arizona, USA	4

Dust deposition in agricultural landscapes: Temporal and spatial dynamics along a transect into a natural forest patch	4
The role of abrasion and resident fines in dust production from aeolian sands as measured by the Portable in situ Wind Erosion Laboratory (PI-SWERL)	4
Editorial Board	4
Dune bistability identified by remote sensing in a semi-arid dune field of northern China	4
A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system	4
A laboratory study of the electrostatic charge of individual sand particles lofted in an electric field	3
Aeolian sand cover on a granite peninsula (Hammeren, Bornholm, Baltic Sea) formed in three episodes during the past 11,600 years	3
A classification scheme for sedimentary architectures arising from aeolian-fluvial system interactions: Permian examples from southeast Utah, USA	3
Numerical study on the bearing response trend of perforated sheet-type sand fences	3
Geochemical characterization of major elements in Gurbantunggut Desert sediments, northwestern China and their regional variations	3
Characterization of 21 years of dust events across four West Texas regions	3
Meteorological and geological controls on dust devil activity: Initial results from a field study at Smith Creek Valley, Nevada, USA	3
A new index to determine the optimal width of sand control project	3
Seasonal changes and migration of longitudinal dunes in the northeastern Rub'al Khali Desert	3
A North American dust emission climatology (2001–2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations	3