Mineral dust in the atmosphere has implications for Earth’s radiation budget, biogeochemical cycles, hydrological cycles, human health, and visibility. Currently, the simulated vertical mass flux of dust differs greatly among the existing dust models. While most of the models utilize an erodibility factor to characterize dust sources, this factor is assumed to be static, without sufficient char...

The relationship between landuse/landcover (LULC) changes and land degradation in two Mediterranean sites is investigated using remotely sensed and ancillary data. The areas of study, the Xaló river catchment in the north of the Alicante province in southeast Spain and the Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, have both been subjected to changes in LULC, such as abandonment, overgrazing, forest fire...

The soils of Gadas, object the present study, are identified on macromorphological, physico-chemical level and indices erodibility related to their properties. analyzes were carried out by standard methods. macromorphological analysis a toposequence made it possible identify five types soils: lithosols which occupy high zones landscape, colluvial (arenosols, regosols) located piedmont, alluvial...

Introduction and Methods Cohesive sediments in marine and coastal environments are responsible for degrading water quality, influencing the cycling and availability of particle bound contaminants, and infilling navigable waterways. In spite of their significance to coastal environments, there are still major gaps in our understanding of many of the fundamental processes governing cohesive sedim...

Soil erosion and sedimentation processes can be considered as serious eco-environmentalproblems. This study aimed to estimate the basin-wide erosion using the Revised UniversalSoil Loss Equation (RUSLE). The soil erosion parameters included rainfall erosivity mapgenerated from the rainfall data, soil erodibility extracted from the soil map, land cover andmanagement map produced from supervised ...