Dune forms and wind regime.

  • S. G. Fryberger
  • , G. Dean

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Abstract

Reliable surface wind information and the recently available Landsat imagery for deserts of the entire world has facilitated the comparison of wind regimes to dune forms on a worldwide basis. In this report the morphologies of dunes, both from well-studied and from relatively less-studied parts of the world, were compared with local and regional winds. Characteristic wind environments were discerned for barchanoid, linear and star dunes. -from Author

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)137-170
Number of pages34
JournalUS Geological Survey, Professional Paper
Volume1052
StatePublished - 1979

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Water Science and Technology
  • Geology

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