OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aeolian Research is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dust storms in Iran – Distribution, causes, frequencies and impacts	89
Numerical simulations of dust storms originated from dried lakes in central and southwest Asia: The case of Aral Sea and Sistan Basin	37
Using the Boruta algorithm and deep learning models for mapping land susceptibility to atmospheric dust emissions in Iran	37
Improving sand wind erosion resistance using renewable agriculturally derived biopolymers	32
Water bodies changes in Tigris and Euphrates basin has impacted dust storms phenomena	30
A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system	29
Grain-size evidence for the transport pathway of the Xiashu loess in northern subtropical China and its linkage with fluvial systems	29
Comparative study of the shelter efficacy of straw checkerboard barriers and rocky checkerboard barriers in a wind tunnel	26
CFD simulation of the wind field over a terrain with sand fences: Critical spacing for the wind shear velocity	23
Global barchans: A distributional analysis	22
Investigations into the design of sand control fence for Gobi buildings	21
Aeolian creep transport: A review	21
Evaluation of the 13 April 2011 frontal dust storm in west Asia	20
Meteorological characteristics of dust storm events in Turkey	19
Experimental investigation to mitigate aeolian erosion via biocementation employed with a novel ureolytic soil isolate	19
Desert dust has a notable impact on aerobiological measurements in Europe	16
Possible sources and transport pathways of loess deposited in Poland and Ukraine from detrital zircon U-Pb age spectra	16
‘Dust in the wind’ from source-to-sink: Analysis of the 14–15 April 2015 storm in Utah	16
High-resolution portable-OSL analysis of Vegetated Linear Dune construction in the margins of the northwestern Negev dunefield (Israel) during the late Quaternary	16
Wind erosion control using carboxymethyl cellulose: From sand bombardment performance to microfabric analysis	15
Microtextural features on quartz grains from eolian sands in a subaqueous sedimentary environment: A case study in the hinterland of the Badain Jaran Desert, Northwest China	15
A North American dust emission climatology (2001–2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations	14
Classification of synoptic weather clusters associated with dust accumulation over southeastern areas of the Caspian Sea (Northeast Iran and Karakum desert)	14
Trace and rare earth element evidence for the provenances of aeolian sands in the Mu Us Desert, NW China	14
The distribution and nature of star dunes: A global analysis	14

Interpretation of sedimentary subpopulations extracted from grain size distributions in loess deposits at the Sea of Azov, Russia	13
Parameterizing an aeolian erosion model for rangelands	13
Surface textures of quartz and ilmenite grains from dune and beach sands of the Gulf of Mexico Coast, Mexico: Implications for fluvial, aeolian and marine transport	13
Mapping and chronology of coversands and dunes from the Aquitaine basin, southwest France	13
A wind tunnel study of the effect of intermediate density ratio on saltation threshold	13
Assessment of the benefit diffusion of windbreak and sand fixation service in National Key Ecological Function areas in China	13
Simulation of wall barrier properties along a railway track during a sandstorm	13
South Africa’s agricultural dust sources and events from MSG SEVIRI	12
Increased Shamal winds and dust activity over the Arabian Peninsula during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020	12
Influence of mineral dust on the concentration and composition of PM10 in the city of Constantine	12
Magnetic susceptibility parameters as proxies for desert sediment provenance	12
Locally recycled late Pleistocene loess feeds modern dust storms at the desert margins of the eastern Mediterranean, Israel	12
A new sampler for the collection and retrieval of dry dust deposition	11
The aeolian component inferred from lake sediments in China	11
Fuzzy comprehensive risk evaluation of aeolian disasters in Xinjiang, Northwest China	11
Sediment transport characteristics above a gobi surface in northwestern China, and implications for aeolian environments	10
Characteristics of dust devil and its dust emission in northern margin of the Taklimakan Desert	10
Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable	10
The mechanism of sand damage at the Fushaliang section of the Liuyuan–Golmud expressway	10
Aeolian sand transport over a wet, sandy beach	10
Fence height control on sand trapping	10
Dust-sized fractions from dustfall and physical weathering in the Gobi Desert	9
Track structure failure caused by sand deposition: Simulation and experimentation	9
Spatiotemporal distribution and variation of wind erosion over the Tibetan Plateau based on a coupled land-surface wind-erosion model	9