Dry climate, poor vegetation and relatively smooth surface and neighborhood with plain Lute are the most important factors that brought about wind erosion processes prevail in the Kerman region. Obviously, wind erosion rate and volume of material transfer depends on characteristics of speed and direction also frequency of wind as well as surface and sediment characteristics. The purpose of this...

The purpose of this research is to analyze anemometer data to study the wind regime in Kashan and to investigate the role of different land uses in sand storms. Therefore, anemometer data obtained from synoptic station of Kashan were analyzed during a 40-year period (1966-2005) using different methods. Seasonal and annual wind roses and storm roses for different lands were created using WRPlot ...

Wind is one of the important natural phenomena in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the world. Although several studies have been conducted using the wind speed and direction to provide wind rose in each area, only a few of them investigated the possibility of wind speed at different return periods. Analysis of the maximum wind speed at different return periods, in a variety of projects such as ...

Dust storms and high winds is a natural process that occurs in everywhere of arid and semi-arid land in the world. The phenomenon of dust is one of the most important consequences of the desertification that cause different damages. The aim of this study was to analyze the occurrence of dust in the city of Bandar Abbas. First, the frequency of monthly and annual dust from 1985-2005, in the city...

Extended abstract 1- Introduction Arid and semi-arid regions of the world cover more than 30% of the earthchr('39')s surface. Wind, as one of the erosive agents of the earthchr('39')s surface, causes the transport of sand and deformation in arid areas. Wind erosion is directly related to wind speed. The higher the wind speed is above the threshold value, the more increase in wind speed. This ...