OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aeolian Research is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dust storms in Iran – Distribution, causes, frequencies and impacts	89
Numerical simulations of dust storms originated from dried lakes in central and southwest Asia: The case of Aral Sea and Sistan Basin	37
Using the Boruta algorithm and deep learning models for mapping land susceptibility to atmospheric dust emissions in Iran	37
Improving sand wind erosion resistance using renewable agriculturally derived biopolymers	32
Water bodies changes in Tigris and Euphrates basin has impacted dust storms phenomena	30
Grain-size evidence for the transport pathway of the Xiashu loess in northern subtropical China and its linkage with fluvial systems	29
A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system	29
Comparative study of the shelter efficacy of straw checkerboard barriers and rocky checkerboard barriers in a wind tunnel	26
CFD simulation of the wind field over a terrain with sand fences: Critical spacing for the wind shear velocity	23
Global barchans: A distributional analysis	22
Investigations into the design of sand control fence for Gobi buildings	21
Aeolian creep transport: A review	21
Evaluation of the 13 April 2011 frontal dust storm in west Asia	20
Meteorological characteristics of dust storm events in Turkey	19
Experimental investigation to mitigate aeolian erosion via biocementation employed with a novel ureolytic soil isolate	19
Desert dust has a notable impact on aerobiological measurements in Europe	16
Possible sources and transport pathways of loess deposited in Poland and Ukraine from detrital zircon U-Pb age spectra	16
‘Dust in the wind’ from source-to-sink: Analysis of the 14–15 April 2015 storm in Utah	16
High-resolution portable-OSL analysis of Vegetated Linear Dune construction in the margins of the northwestern Negev dunefield (Israel) during the late Quaternary	16
Wind erosion control using carboxymethyl cellulose: From sand bombardment performance to microfabric analysis	15
Microtextural features on quartz grains from eolian sands in a subaqueous sedimentary environment: A case study in the hinterland of the Badain Jaran Desert, Northwest China	15
Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert)	14
Trace and rare earth element evidence for the provenances of aeolian sands in the Mu Us Desert, NW China	14
The distribution and nature of star dunes: A global analysis	14
A North American dust emission climatology (2001–2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations	14

Surface textures of quartz and ilmenite grains from dune and beach sands of the Gulf of Mexico Coast, Mexico: Implications for fluvial, aeolian and marine transport	13
Mapping and chronology of coversands and dunes from the Aquitaine basin, southwest France	13
A wind tunnel study of the effect of intermediate density ratio on saltation threshold	13
Assessment of the benefit diffusion of windbreak and sand fixation service in National Key Ecological Function areas in China	13
Simulation of wall barrier properties along a railway track during a sandstorm	13
Interpretation of sedimentary subpopulations extracted from grain size distributions in loess deposits at the Sea of Azov, Russia	13
Parameterizing an aeolian erosion model for rangelands	13
Influence of mineral dust on the concentration and composition of PM10 in the city of Constantine	12
Magnetic susceptibility parameters as proxies for desert sediment provenance	12
Locally recycled late Pleistocene loess feeds modern dust storms at the desert margins of the eastern Mediterranean, Israel	12
South Africa’s agricultural dust sources and events from MSG SEVIRI	12
Increased Shamal winds and dust activity over the Arabian Peninsula during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020	12
The aeolian component inferred from lake sediments in China	11
Fuzzy comprehensive risk evaluation of aeolian disasters in Xinjiang, Northwest China	11
A new sampler for the collection and retrieval of dry dust deposition	11
Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable	10
The mechanism of sand damage at the Fushaliang section of the Liuyuan–Golmud expressway	10
Aeolian sand transport over a wet, sandy beach	10
Fence height control on sand trapping	10
Sediment transport characteristics above a gobi surface in northwestern China, and implications for aeolian environments	10
Characteristics of dust devil and its dust emission in northern margin of the Taklimakan Desert	10
Dust-sized fractions from dustfall and physical weathering in the Gobi Desert	9
Track structure failure caused by sand deposition: Simulation and experimentation	9
Spatiotemporal distribution and variation of wind erosion over the Tibetan Plateau based on a coupled land-surface wind-erosion model	9
How wind direction and building spacing influences airflow patterns and sediment transport patterns around a row of beach buildings: A numerical study	8
Chronology and dust mass accumulation history of the Wenchuan loess on eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last glacial	8
Statistical comparisons of grain size characteristics, hydraulic conductivity, and porosity of barchan desert dunes to coastal dunes	8
Statistical characterization of sedimentation velocity of natural particles	8
Depositional timing and palaeoclimate interpretation of the Tamala Limestone aeolianites in Shark Bay, Western Australia	7
Numerical study on snow erosion and deposition around an embankment with a snow fence under snowfall conditions	7
CO2-induced carbonate minerals as soil stabilizing agents for dust suppression	7
PM10 emission from feedlots in soils with different texture: Cattle trampling effect	7
Using spatial variations of grain size to reveal sediment transport in the Kumtagh Sand Sea, Northwest China	7
Cultivation impacts on soil texture during oasis expansion in Xinjiang, Northwest China: Wind erosion effects	7
Modelled direct causes of dust emission change (2001–2020) in southwestern USA and implications for management	7
Constraining the timing and deposition pattern of loess-palaeosol sequences in Kashmir Valley, Western Himalaya: Implications to paleoenvironment studies	7
Seasonal changes and migration of longitudinal dunes in the northeastern Rub'al Khali Desert	7
Chronostratigraphic framework and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Holocene loess-paleosol sequence in the Luoyang Basin, Central China	7
Geochemical characterization of major elements in Gurbantunggut Desert sediments, northwestern China and their regional variations	6
Aeolian sand transport: Scaling of mean saltation length and height and implications for mass flux scaling	6
Dome dunes: Distribution and morphology	6
Influence of sampling approaches on physical and geochemical analysis of aeolian dust in source regions	6
Vegetation, hydrology, and sand movement interactions on the Slate Canyon alluvial fan-Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	6
Use of digital photogrammetry and LiDAR techniques to quantify time-series dune volume estimates of the Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	6
Abrasion of soil clods with different textures and moisture contents in sand flow environment	6
Scaling sediment mobilization beneath rotorcraft for Titan and Mars	6
Dune bistability identified by remote sensing in a semi-arid dune field of northern China	6
Comparison of equilibrium sand transport rate model predictions with an extended dataset of field experiments at dry beaches with long fetch distance	6
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	6
Permo-Triassic aeolian red clay of southwestern England and its palaeoenvironmental implications	5

Vertical flux density and frequency profiles of wind-blown sand as a function of the grain size over gobi and implications for aeolian transport processes	5
High resolution luminescence chronology of coastal dune deposits near Chumphon, Western Gulf of Thailand	5
Seasonal variations in threshold wind speed for saltation depending on soil temperature and vegetation: A case study in the Gobi Desert	5
Nebkhas: An essay in aeolian biogeomorphology	5
Mapping the temporal and spatial changes in crescent dunes using an interferometric synthetic aperture radar temporal decorrelation model	5
Surface-area development of foredune trough blowouts and associated parabolic dunes quantified from time series of satellite imagery	5
Management effects on glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in the PM10 emitted by soils of the central semi-arid region of Argentina	5
A cross-comparison of threshold friction velocities for PM10 emissions between a traditional portable straight-line wind tunnel and PI-SWERL	5
Changes of electric field, aerosol, and wind covariance in different blowing dust days in West Texas	5
The effect of wind speed averaging time on the study of soil wind erosion on typical land surfaces	5
Wind regime and aeolian sand transport in Khuzestan Sand Sea	5
Aeolian dunes morphodynamics and wind regime reconstruction in mid-latitudes of the Gondwana during Early Permian, Aracaré Formation, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil	5
Age and source of coastal loess in Shandong Peninsula, Bohai Sea, China: Implications for dust aggradation in respond to sea-level change	5
Quantifying vegetation and its effect on aeolian sediment transport: A UAS investigation on longitudinal dunes	5
Characterization of potential fugitive dust emissions within the Keeler Dunes, an inland dune field in the Owens Valley, California, United States	5
Lower to middle pleistocene coastal dune fields formation in the western mediterranean (Western Eivissa, Balearic archipelago): Chronology and landscape evolution	4
Origin and provenance of Red Clay in north Hunan Province, China: Inferred from grain-size analysis and end-member modelling	4
Assessing the role of lichens in the prevention of dust emission in dryland: Case study at north-eastern Iran	4
Grain size analysis of the latest Quaternary Kordofan Sand of Central Sudan: Depositional environment and mode of transportation	4
Resolution of the size/distance degeneracy of the dust devils signals observed with a stationary meteorological station	4
Construction and field use of a cyclone type instantaneous weighing aeolian sand trap	4
Biogeomorphology of mega nebkha in the Fahraj Plain, Iran: Sensitive indicators of human activity and climate change	4
Field test of the accuracy of laser particle counters to measure aeolian sediment flux	4
Elemental composition of wind-blown sediments from contrasting textured soils	4
Effect of bagasse lignocellulose microfibers on sand stabilization: A laboratory study	4
Origin and radiogenic isotope fingerprinting of aerosols over the Southwestern Atlantic and corresponding Southern Ocean Sector	4
Cellular automaton modelling of the effects of buildings on aeolian bedform dynamics	4
A laser sheet sensor (LASS) for wind-blown sand flux measurement	4
Dynamic processes of dust emission from gobi: A portable wind tunnel study atop the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China	4
Downwind evolution of aeolian saltation across an artificially constructed coastal berm	4
Luminescence geochronology and paleoenvironmental implications of coastal red dune sands of northeast Hainan Island, China	4