Soil Erosion: Dust Control and Sand Stabilization, Volume II
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2022) | Viewed by 29182
Special Issue Editor
Interests: geomorphology; soil erosion; aeolian processes; dust sources and emissions; arid soils under human activities; sand transport and land formation; boundary-layer wind tunnel experiments; dust storms and air pollution
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil erosion by wind is significant to Earth systems and the quality of human life. Climate change of drier conditions is associated with desertification and, thus, increased dust emission from soils and sand-dune transport. Moreover, many soils throughout the world are subjected to the impacts of rapid population growth and extensive land uses, including agricultural fields, grazing areas, unpaved roads, mines and quarries, waste soils, active sand dunes and sand sheets, and more. There is a strong interest in understanding the factors and processes of soil erosion by wind as well as in developing and applying methods to control dust emission from soils and to stabilize active sands. This Special Issue on soil erosion invites novel and original articles based on physical and chemical theories, field and laboratory experiments, soil analyses, and/or statistical and mathematical modeling that advance our knowledge of dust control and sand stabilization.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Applications of natural and synthetic materials to reduce dust emission;
- Development of materials and methods for dust control and sand stabilization;
- Distribution of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) from dust sources;
- Integration of experimental methods and modeling in dust emission;
- Impacts of dust control applications on the soil quality and the environments;
- Quantification of the efficiency in dust control and sand stabilization applications.
Prof. Dr. Itzhak Katra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Aeolian processes
- Arid areas
- Dust emission
- Dust sources
- Environmental pollution
- Infrastructures
- Human activities
- Particle size distribution
- Polymers
- Sand dune
- Sand transport
- Soil erosion
- Soil physics
- Soil quality
- Topsoil
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