Undoubtedly, land degradation linked to desertification causes a decrease in qualitative and quantitative features of natural resources. This research aimed to assess land desertification by local residents and their role in controlling desertification in Isfahan province, Iran in 2016. The criteria were soil climate, vegetation, erosion, and demography. The indicators of soil texture, stone fr...

Semiarid landscapes are characterized by vegetated surfaces. Understanding the impact of vegetation on aeolian soil erosion is important for reducing soil erosion or limiting crop damage through abrasion or burial. In the present study, a saltation model fully coupled with a large-eddy simulation airflow model is extended to vegetated landscapes. From this model, the sensitivity of sand erosion...

introduction iran kaluts (yardang) which are considered as special models in terms of magnitude and extension have been shaped in the west part of the central lut desert. although these kaluts now are influenced by the selective windy erosion, they can be shaped through the process of wind and water erosion. the suitable environment for formation of these kaluts are the arid region together wit...

This paper describes spatial modeling methods to identify wind erosion hazard (WEH) areas across Australia using the recently available time-series products of satellitederived ground cover, soil moisture and wind speed. We implemented the approach and data sets in a geographic information system to produce WEH maps for Australia at 500 m ground resolution on a monthly basis for the recent thir...

The Eastern Sahara (Fig. i) is devoid of surface drainage -this unusual characteristic distinguishes its morphology from that of most other desert regions where running water dominates landscape development (Peel, 1939). Cyclic aridity, which is responsible for the obscuring eolian blankets and wind-erosion effects, had set in by the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition, about 2 million years ago (W...