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 2020-09-01 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
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
Desert dust has a notable impact on aerobiological measurements in Europe	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
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
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
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
Magnetic susceptibility parameters as proxies for desert sediment provenance	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