The wind fetch effect is important to wind erosion and aeolian transport and controls aeolian flux.It is useful to study the wind fetch effect in determining the aeolian transport mechanism and improving our knowledge of aeolian physics and wind erosion.In this paper,multichannel samplers measure aeolian transport at different heights above an artificial Gobi surface in the southeastern region of the Tengger Desert.The results show that aeolian transport flux can be expressed as an exponential function of height.Wind fetch obviously affects aeolian flux and aeolian transport.The coefficients and relative decay rate of aeolian flux decrease and then increase with increasing wind fetch distance.Aeolian transport depends on the height and fetch distance;aeolian transport increases and then decreases with increasing fetch distance,reaching a maximum at a fetch distance of about 34 m at the very near surface.The fetch distance of maximum aeolian transport tends to increase with height.
为了明确柴达木盆地雅丹地貌发育的风况特征,对盆地中南部鲸背状雅丹区和西北部长垄状雅丹区的风况分别进行了长期的野外实地观测。对实测的风速风向数据按照罗盘16方位分风速段统计分析,计算输沙势,得到柴达木盆地雅丹地貌区风况数据集。该数据集包括两个数据文件:(1)盆地中南部的鲸背状雅丹区风况数据(WinReg_haleBackYardang_B);(2)盆地西北部的长垄状雅丹区风况数据(WinReg_ongRidgeYardang_B)。每个数据文件均包含3个工作表,分别为观测周期内的原始风速风向记录,各月份、季节、年度的风频和输沙势。本数据集存储为.xls格式,压缩后的数据量为2.73 MB。本数据集不仅可准确阐释柴达木盆地雅丹地貌发育的风况特征,也为进一步研究雅丹地貌的发育演化模式奠定了基础。本数据集的相关研究成果发表在《中国沙漠》2013年33卷第5期和《Journal of Arid Land》2019年11卷第5期。
Understanding the relationship between the changes in lake water volume and climate change can provide valuable information to the recharge sources of lake water. This is particularly true in arid areas such as the Badain Jaran Sand Sea, an ecologically sensitive area, where the recharge sources of lakes are heatedly debated. In this study, we determined the areas of 50 lakes(representing 70% of the total permanent lakes in this sand sea) in 1967, 1975, 1990, 2000 and 2010 by analyzing remote-sensing images using image processing and Ar GIS software. In general, the total lake area decreased from 1967 to 1990, remained almost unchanged from 1990 to 2000, and increased from 2000 to 2010. Analysis of the relationship between these changes and the contemporaneous changes in annual mean temperature and annual precipitation in the surrounding areas suggests that temperature has significantly affected the lake area, but that the influence of precipitation was minor. These results tend to support the palaeo-water recharge hypothesis for lakes of the Badain Jaran Sand Sea, considering the fact that the distribution and area of lakes are closely related to precipitation and the size of mega-dunes, but the contemporaneous precipitation can hardly balance the lake water.
Dune networks are widely distributed in the world's deserts,which include primary ridges and secondary ridges.However,they have not been sufficiently studied in a systematic manner and their origins and spatial and morphological characteristics remain unclear.To provide information on the geomorphology of dune networks,we analyze the software geomorphologic patterns of the dune networks in China's Tengger Desert using matrix and laboratory to process remote-sensing images.Based on analysis of image features and their layout in a topographic map,we identify two types of dune networks (square and rectangular dune networks) with different size and morphological structures in the Tengger Desert.Four important geomorphic pattern parameters,ridge length,spacing,orientation and defect density,are analyzed.The length of primary ridges of dune networks decreases from northwest of the desert to the southeast,resulting an increasing spacing and a transition from rectangular dune networks to square dune networks.Wind regime and sediment supply are responsible for the variation in pattern parameters.We use the spacing and defect density data to estimate the construction time of dune networks and found that the dune networks in the Tengger Desert formed since about 1.3 ka BP.
