期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE
卷 124, 期 7, 页码 1658-1674出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2019JF005104
关键词
aeolian processes; saltation; particle size distribution; wind erosion; sediment transport; dust emission
资金
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship [EAR-1249918]
- NSF [AGS-1358621]
- Army Research Laboratory
- Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area
- Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve
- Jericoacoara National Park
- Brazilian Ministry of the Environment [46254-1]
- [W911NF-15-1-0417]
Natural wind-eroded soils contain a mixture of particle sizes. However, models for aeolian saltation are typically derived for sediment bed surfaces containing only a single particle size. To nonetheless treat natural mixed beds, models for saltation and associated dust aerosol emission have typically simplified aeolian transport either as a series of noninteracting single particle size beds or as a bed containing only the median or mean particle size. Here we test these common assumptions underpinning aeolian transport models using measurements of size-resolved saltation fluxes at three natural field sites. We find that a wide range of sand size classes experience equal susceptibility to saltation at a single common threshold wind shear stress, contrary to the selective susceptibility expected for treatment of a mixed bed as multiple single particle size beds. Our observation of equal susceptibility refutes the common simplification of saltation as a series of noninteracting single particle sizes. Sand transport and dust emission models that use this incorrect assumption can be both simplified and improved by instead using a single particle size representative of the mixed bed.
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