the main objective of this study is evaluation and wind statistic analysis, investigation of wind regime role on discharge flow and direction of sediments transferring in the case study. thus, sabzevar station anemometer data duration 10 years statistic period (1996-2005) analyzed. sand drift potential amount of study area is 160.9 v.u and result drift directionâ is west as well as sand flux is...

The amount of sand moving parallel to a coastline forms a prerequisite for many harbor design projects. Such information is currently obtained through various empirical formulae. Despite so many works in the past an accurate and reliable estimation of the rate of sand drift has still remained as a problem. The current study addresses this issue through the use of artificial neural networks (ANN...

Golan Bel and Yosef Ashkenazy Department of Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel (Dated: May 11, 2014) Abstract Psammophilous plants are special plants that flourish in sand moving environments. There are two main mechanisms by which the wind affects these plants: (i) sand drift exposes roots and cov...

The sand spits associated with the Volta and Senegal River deltas, the two largest river deltas in West Africa, after that of the Niger River, show complex patterns of morphodynamic development while also strongly reflecting the recent impacts of human activities. The large spit of the Volta delta seems to be a direct outgrowth of a natural change in the location of the mouth of the Volta and o...