Dust storms have a number of impacts upon the environment including radiative forcing, and
biogeochemical cycling. They transport material over many thousands of kilometres. They …

Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, this volume provides a
state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly …

Several studies have highlighted the importance of collecting well-dated records of
palaeoenvironmental changes on desert margins, particularly in the semi-arid interior of …

Grain size analyses of three hilltop, primary eolian loess sequences in the Negev desert,
southern Israel, show a bimodal grain-size distribution at 50–60 μm and 3–8 μm. Using …

We attempt to reconstruct the history of westerly and monsoonal circulations in northern
China using variations in sediment grain-size and accumulation rate at four loess sections in …

The hyper-arid Qaidam Basin is a major dust source area in China. Mineral materials that
settled during 11 dust storms from November 2003 to April 2005 in the northern Qaidam …

Understanding Holocene paleoclimate in arid Central Asia (ACA) is helpful for predicting
future climate. However, Holocene climate patterns and their forcing mechanisms across …

Parametric curve-fitting techniques are routinely adopted to derive the components of
individual grain-size distributions of sediment samples. However, due to the lack of …

Atmospheric dust deposition is a common phenomenon in arid and semi-arid regions.
Bimodal grain size distribution (BGSD)(including the fine component and coarse …

Dust storms are natural phenomena, described in Chinese historical documents as early as
1150 BC. These documents provide a way to evaluate proxy data from different natural …