OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aeolian Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The geomorphic and palaeoenvironmental significance of water-induced horizontal layering in arid inland and coastal mediterranean interdunes	91
CCN and INP activity of middle eastern soil dust	28
Parameterizing an aeolian erosion model for rangelands	28
Editorial Board	23
Dome dunes: Distribution and morphology	22
Editorial Board	20
A modified resultant drift potential for more accurate prediction of sand transportation in the vicinity of the Keeler Dunes, California	18
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	14
Quantifying dust emission potential of playa and desert surfaces in the Salton Sea Air Basin, California, United States	13
Editorial Board	13
Increased Shamal winds and dust activity over the Arabian Peninsula during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020	12
Seasonal variations in threshold wind speed for saltation depending on soil temperature and vegetation: A case study in the Gobi Desert	11
Modelled direct causes of dust emission change (2001–2020) in southwestern USA and implications for management	11
Evaluation of the dustiness of fugitive dust sources using gravitational drop tests	11
Regional differences in the grain size characteristics of surface sediments from typical barchan dunes in arid zones	10
Surface wind strength and sea surface temperature connections along the south peruvian coast during the last 150 years	10
Age and source of coastal loess in Shandong Peninsula, Bohai Sea, China: Implications for dust aggradation in respond to sea-level change	9
Morphology and distribution of Martian wedge dunes and their terrestrial analogs	9
Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risks of heavy metals in windborne sediments from a residential area (Case study: Tabas, Iran)	9
Automatic identification of saltating tracks driven by strong wind in high-speed video using multiple statistical quantities of instant particle velocity	9
The indicative significance of grain size end-members and quartz surface microtextural features in Beglitsa loess sections at the Sea of Azov	8
Evaluation of minerals being deposited in the Red Sea using gravimetric, size distribution, and mineralogical analysis of dust deposition samples collected along the Red Sea coastal plain	8
An application of CNN to classify barchan dunes into asymmetry classes	8
Chronology and dust mass accumulation history of the Wenchuan loess on eastern Tibetan Plateau since the last glacial	8

Experimental investigation to mitigate aeolian erosion via biocementation employed with a novel ureolytic soil isolate	8
Assessing the PM10 emission potential of sandy, dryland soils in South Africa using the PI-SWERL	8
Reconstructing star dune dynamics using ground penetrating radar – How movement shapes complex surface structures	7
Comparison of equilibrium sand transport rate model predictions with an extended dataset of field experiments at dry beaches with long fetch distance	7
ZIBARS: Distribution, morphology and environmental controls	7
Near-surface structure of a large linear dune and an associated crossing dune of the northern Namib Sand Sea from Ground Penetrating Radar: Implications for the history of large linear dunes on Earth	7
Vortex core regions of nebkhas and their implications on shadow dune formation	7
Aeolian influences on gully erosion in clay-rich soils in a humid subtropical climate, Southeast USA	7
The influence of backdune morphology on air flow dynamics through an excavated foredune notch	7
Editorial Board	7
Constant stress layer characteristics in simulated stratified air flows: Implications for aeolian transport	7
Experimental evidence of dust flux size distribution variation along two consecutive erosion seasons	6
Late Quaternary eolian dune-field mobilization and stabilization near the Laurentide Ice Sheet limit, New Jersey Pine Barrens, eastern USA	6
Late Quaternary aeolian environments, luminescence chronology and climate change for the Monahans dune field, Winkler County, West Texas, USA	6
Use of digital photogrammetry and LiDAR techniques to quantify time-series dune volume estimates of the Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	6
Implications of gravel content on aerodynamic parameters, sand flux, erosion and accumulation during deflation processes over Gobi	6
Morphological dynamics of a trough-shaped blowout on a fixed dune in China	6
Limitations of applying grain weight similitude in aeolian studies with NASA Mars Wind Tunnel	5
Characterizing variability in geochemistry and mineralogy of western US dust sources	5
Aeolian creep transport: A review	5
Landscape structure model based estimation of the wind erosion risk in Brandenburg, Germany	5
Investigating threshold wind velocity for movement of sparsely distributed gravels in a wind tunnel: Effect of surface coarseness	5
Adhesion theory and model for air humidity impact on dust emission	5
Vegetation, hydrology, and sand movement interactions on the Slate Canyon alluvial fan-Keeler Dunes Complex, Owens Valley, California	4
Charges of individual sand grains in natural windblown sand fluxes	4
Editorial Board	4
High resolution luminescence chronology of coastal dune deposits near Chumphon, Western Gulf of Thailand	4
Dust deposition in agricultural landscapes: Temporal and spatial dynamics along a transect into a natural forest patch	4
Dune bistability identified by remote sensing in a semi-arid dune field of northern China	4
Aeolian sand transport: Scaling of mean saltation length and height and implications for mass flux scaling	4
How wind direction and building spacing influences airflow patterns and sediment transport patterns around a row of beach buildings: A numerical study	4
The role of abrasion and resident fines in dust production from aeolian sands as measured by the Portable in situ Wind Erosion Laboratory (PI-SWERL)	4
Dynamic processes of dust emission from gobi: A portable wind tunnel study atop the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China	4
Grain size analysis of the latest Quaternary Kordofan Sand of Central Sudan: Depositional environment and mode of transportation	4
Speculation on an early Pleistocene origin of the Parker dunes of southwest Arizona, USA	3
A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system	3
Editorial Board	3
CO2-induced carbonate minerals as soil stabilizing agents for dust suppression	3
Fluid-driven surface change in sediment-limited interdune environments and relevance to Titan	3
Combining modeling and isotopic signatures to track Aeolian dust from source to sink in the Wasatch Front, Utah, USA	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Heavy minerals of the aeolian sediments in the East Slovak Basin (Western Carpathians) – Implications for their origin, transport process and sedimentary history	3
Loess and its derivatives in a common sedimentary and geomorphic evolution of the East European Plain	3
Editorial Board	3
Vertical flux density and frequency profiles of wind-blown sand as a function of the grain size over gobi and implications for aeolian transport processes	2
Assessment of the benefit diffusion of windbreak and sand fixation service in National Key Ecological Function areas in China	2
A new index to determine the optimal width of sand control project	2
Numerical study on snow erosion and deposition around an embankment with a snow fence under snowfall conditions	2
Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert)	2

Numerical study on the bearing response trend of perforated sheet-type sand fences	2
Surface-area development of foredune trough blowouts and associated parabolic dunes quantified from time series of satellite imagery	2
Seasonal changes and migration of longitudinal dunes in the northeastern Rub'al Khali Desert	2
A classification scheme for sedimentary architectures arising from aeolian-fluvial system interactions: Permian examples from southeast Utah, USA	2
A North American dust emission climatology (2001–2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations	2
Geochemical characterization of major elements in Gurbantunggut Desert sediments, northwestern China and their regional variations	2
Meteorological and geological controls on dust devil activity: Initial results from a field study at Smith Creek Valley, Nevada, USA	2
Wind regime and aeolian sand transport in Khuzestan Sand Sea	2
Aeolian sand cover on a granite peninsula (Hammeren, Bornholm, Baltic Sea) formed in three episodes during the past 11,600 years	2
Simulations of dune morphology under tri-directional wind regimes and application to dunes on Mars	2