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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Dust storms in Iran – Distribution, causes, frequencies and impacts	105
A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system	54
Numerical simulations of dust storms originated from dried lakes in central and southwest Asia: The case of Aral Sea and Sistan Basin	46
Using the Boruta algorithm and deep learning models for mapping land susceptibility to atmospheric dust emissions in Iran	43
Improving sand wind erosion resistance using renewable agriculturally derived biopolymers	36
Water bodies changes in Tigris and Euphrates basin has impacted dust storms phenomena	35
Grain-size evidence for the transport pathway of the Xiashu loess in northern subtropical China and its linkage with fluvial systems	31
Investigations into the design of sand control fence for Gobi buildings	28
Aeolian creep transport: A review	23
Experimental investigation to mitigate aeolian erosion via biocementation employed with a novel ureolytic soil isolate	21
High-resolution portable-OSL analysis of Vegetated Linear Dune construction in the margins of the northwestern Negev dunefield (Israel) during the late Quaternary	20
Meteorological characteristics of dust storm events in Turkey	19
A North American dust emission climatology (2001–2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations	18
Parameterizing an aeolian erosion model for rangelands	18
‘Dust in the wind’ from source-to-sink: Analysis of the 14–15 April 2015 storm in Utah	17
Assessment of the benefit diffusion of windbreak and sand fixation service in National Key Ecological Function areas in China	17
Simulation of wall barrier properties along a railway track during a sandstorm	17
Desert dust has a notable impact on aerobiological measurements in Europe	16
Wind erosion control using carboxymethyl cellulose: From sand bombardment performance to microfabric analysis	16
The distribution and nature of star dunes: A global analysis	16
Trace and rare earth element evidence for the provenances of aeolian sands in the Mu Us Desert, NW China	15
Increased Shamal winds and dust activity over the Arabian Peninsula during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020	15
Influence of mineral dust on the concentration and composition of PM10 in the city of Constantine	14
Mapping and chronology of coversands and dunes from the Aquitaine basin, southwest France	14
South Africa’s agricultural dust sources and events from MSG SEVIRI	14

Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert)	14
Magnetic susceptibility parameters as proxies for desert sediment provenance	13
Fuzzy comprehensive risk evaluation of aeolian disasters in Xinjiang, Northwest China	13
Fence height control on sand trapping	13
Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable	13
Locally recycled late Pleistocene loess feeds modern dust storms at the desert margins of the eastern Mediterranean, Israel	13
The aeolian component inferred from lake sediments in China	12
How wind direction and building spacing influences airflow patterns and sediment transport patterns around a row of beach buildings: A numerical study	11
Spatiotemporal distribution and variation of wind erosion over the Tibetan Plateau based on a coupled land-surface wind-erosion model	11
Sediment transport characteristics above a gobi surface in northwestern China, and implications for aeolian environments	11
Aeolian sand transport over a wet, sandy beach	10
The mechanism of sand damage at the Fushaliang section of the Liuyuan–Golmud expressway	10
Nebkhas: An essay in aeolian biogeomorphology	9
Geochemical characterization of major elements in Gurbantunggut Desert sediments, northwestern China and their regional variations	9
Scaling sediment mobilization beneath rotorcraft for Titan and Mars	9
Modelled direct causes of dust emission change (2001–2020) in southwestern USA and implications for management	9
Using spatial variations of grain size to reveal sediment transport in the Kumtagh Sand Sea, Northwest China	8
Chronostratigraphic framework and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Holocene loess-paleosol sequence in the Luoyang Basin, Central China	8
Changes of electric field, aerosol, and wind covariance in different blowing dust days in West Texas	8
Cultivation impacts on soil texture during oasis expansion in Xinjiang, Northwest China: Wind erosion effects	8
Chronology and dust mass accumulation history of the Wenchuan loess on eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last glacial	8
Constraining the timing and deposition pattern of loess-palaeosol sequences in Kashmir Valley, Western Himalaya: Implications to paleoenvironment studies	8
CO2-induced carbonate minerals as soil stabilizing agents for dust suppression	8
PM10 emission from feedlots in soils with different texture: Cattle trampling effect	7
Seasonal changes and migration of longitudinal dunes in the northeastern Rub'al Khali Desert	7
Aeolian sand transport: Scaling of mean saltation length and height and implications for mass flux scaling	7
Use of digital photogrammetry and LiDAR techniques to quantify time-series dune volume estimates of the Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	7
Influence of sampling approaches on physical and geochemical analysis of aeolian dust in source regions	7
Quantifying vegetation and its effect on aeolian sediment transport: A UAS investigation on longitudinal dunes	7
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
Dune bistability identified by remote sensing in a semi-arid dune field of northern China	7
Abrasion of soil clods with different textures and moisture contents in sand flow environment	7
Luminescence geochronology and paleoenvironmental implications of coastal red dune sands of northeast Hainan Island, China	7
Cellular automaton modelling of the effects of buildings on aeolian bedform dynamics	7
Surface-area development of foredune trough blowouts and associated parabolic dunes quantified from time series of satellite imagery	7
Dynamic processes of dust emission from gobi: A portable wind tunnel study atop the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China	7
Dome dunes: Distribution and morphology	7
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	6
Management effects on glyphosate and AMPA concentrations in the PM10 emitted by soils of the central semi-arid region of Argentina	6
Age and source of coastal loess in Shandong Peninsula, Bohai Sea, China: Implications for dust aggradation in respond to sea-level change	6
Effect of bagasse lignocellulose microfibers on sand stabilization: A laboratory study	6
Downwind evolution of aeolian saltation across an artificially constructed coastal berm	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
Mapping the temporal and spatial changes in crescent dunes using an interferometric synthetic aperture radar temporal decorrelation model	6
Vegetation, hydrology, and sand movement interactions on the Slate Canyon alluvial fan-Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	6
Comparison of equilibrium sand transport rate model predictions with an extended dataset of field experiments at dry beaches with long fetch distance	6
Seasonal variations in threshold wind speed for saltation depending on soil temperature and vegetation: A case study in the Gobi Desert	6
The effect of wind speed averaging time on the study of soil wind erosion on typical land surfaces	5
Assessing the role of lichens in the prevention of dust emission in dryland: Case study at north-eastern Iran	5

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	5
Characterization of potential fugitive dust emissions within the Keeler Dunes, an inland dune field in the Owens Valley, California, United States	5
Origin and provenance of Red Clay in north Hunan Province, China: Inferred from grain-size analysis and end-member modelling	5
High resolution luminescence chronology of coastal dune deposits near Chumphon, Western Gulf of Thailand	5
A cross-comparison of threshold friction velocities for PM10 emissions between a traditional portable straight-line wind tunnel and PI-SWERL	5
Biogeomorphology of mega nebkha in the Fahraj Plain, Iran: Sensitive indicators of human activity and climate change	5
Permo-Triassic aeolian red clay of southwestern England and its palaeoenvironmental implications	5
Aeolian dunes morphodynamics and wind regime reconstruction in mid-latitudes of the Gondwana during Early Permian, Aracaré Formation, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil	5
An application of CNN to classify barchan dunes into asymmetry classes	4
Investigating the biological treatment effect on fine-grained soil resistance against wind erosion: An experimental case study	4
CCN and INP activity of middle eastern soil dust	4
Dust devils: Characteristics of the forward motion from a Saharan survey	4
Atmospheric particle adsorption rates of plants in an industrial city of southwest Iran	4
Landscape structure model based estimation of the wind erosion risk in Brandenburg, Germany	4
New research on the origin of the late Quaternary Old Red Sand in the coastal area of South China	4
The influences of boundary layer thickness on the characteristics of saltation sand flow – A large eddy simulation study	4
Wind regime and aeolian sand transport in Khuzestan Sand Sea	4
Variation of bed microtopography with time around an isolated surface-mounted cylindrical roughness element and its influence on wind flow	4
Assessing the PM10 emission potential of sandy, dryland soils in South Africa using the PI-SWERL	4
A laser sheet sensor (LASS) for wind-blown sand flux measurement	4
Field test of the accuracy of laser particle counters to measure aeolian sediment flux	4
Grain size analysis of the latest Quaternary Kordofan Sand of Central Sudan: Depositional environment and mode of transportation	4