OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aeolian Research is 8. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Dust storms in Iran – Distribution, causes, frequencies and impacts	107
A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system	60
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	37
Water bodies changes in Tigris and Euphrates basin has impacted dust storms phenomena	36
Investigations into the design of sand control fence for Gobi buildings	28
Aeolian creep transport: A review	24
Experimental investigation to mitigate aeolian erosion via biocementation employed with a novel ureolytic soil isolate	22
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
Desert dust has a notable impact on aerobiological measurements in Europe	18
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
Assessment of the benefit diffusion of windbreak and sand fixation service in National Key Ecological Function areas in China	17
Increased Shamal winds and dust activity over the Arabian Peninsula during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020	16
The distribution and nature of star dunes: A global analysis	16
Wind erosion control using carboxymethyl cellulose: From sand bombardment performance to microfabric analysis	16
Trace and rare earth element evidence for the provenances of aeolian sands in the Mu Us Desert, NW China	15
South Africa’s agricultural dust sources and events from MSG SEVIRI	14
Mapping and chronology of coversands and dunes from the Aquitaine basin, southwest France	14
Influence of mineral dust on the concentration and composition of PM10 in the city of Constantine	14
Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert)	14
Fuzzy comprehensive risk evaluation of aeolian disasters in Xinjiang, Northwest China	13
Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable	13

Spatiotemporal distribution and variation of wind erosion over the Tibetan Plateau based on a coupled land-surface wind-erosion model	12
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
Nebkhas: An essay in aeolian biogeomorphology	11
Sediment transport characteristics above a gobi surface in northwestern China, and implications for aeolian environments	11
The mechanism of sand damage at the Fushaliang section of the Liuyuan–Golmud expressway	10
Scaling sediment mobilization beneath rotorcraft for Titan and Mars	10
Aeolian sand transport over a wet, sandy beach	10
Modelled direct causes of dust emission change (2001–2020) in southwestern USA and implications for management	9
Geochemical characterization of major elements in Gurbantunggut Desert sediments, northwestern China and their regional variations	9
Constraining the timing and deposition pattern of loess-palaeosol sequences in Kashmir Valley, Western Himalaya: Implications to paleoenvironment studies	8
Cultivation impacts on soil texture during oasis expansion in Xinjiang, Northwest China: Wind erosion effects	8
Chronostratigraphic framework and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Holocene loess-paleosol sequence in the Luoyang Basin, Central China	8
Cellular automaton modelling of the effects of buildings on aeolian bedform dynamics	8
Aeolian sand transport: Scaling of mean saltation length and height and implications for mass flux scaling	8
Chronology and dust mass accumulation history of the Wenchuan loess on eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last glacial	8
Changes of electric field, aerosol, and wind covariance in different blowing dust days in West Texas	8
Numerical study on snow erosion and deposition around an embankment with a snow fence under snowfall conditions	8
CO2-induced carbonate minerals as soil stabilizing agents for dust suppression	8