What can the life of sand dunes on Mars tell us about climate change on Earth?
PhD student @LucieADelobel shares her love of sand dunes and studying them on Earth & Mars in this chat with Dr @SandStreamers at @kclgeography
🎧Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/6oUnwpoPJF
Fantastic PhD opportunity: Fifty years of beach change at Bengello Beach, A chance to work on the longest-running beach monitoring program in the southern hemisphere! Contact me and apply here: https://t.co/mZZDHEuT3T
The impact of #ClimateChange on wind could see Egypt’s world-famous sand dunes blown away by the end of the century, suggests @kclgeography study.
Lead researcher Dr Andreas Baas (@SandStreamers) explains more in this piece for today's @theipaper ⬇
https://t.co/guZIgDYwDX
One of our main results: changes in Resultant Drift Potential in the arid zone by end-of-century:
(shareable PDF of our paper: https://t.co/MqFRBFqqkq )
Approximately half of the large wildfires occurring between 2003 and 2020 were followed by dust events, storms of strong winds lifting dust and sand from dry soils, according to an analysis published in @NatureGeosci. https://t.co/c22ABkuXvP
A new model by @DomRobson7 shows that barchan swarms in Morocco are dominated by aggregation-fragmentation, while swarms in Mauretania and on Mars are maintained mainly by exchange interactions.
Physica A: https://t.co/qyvPX2qBTR
Our @kclgeography weather station on the Strand has not recorded a single drop of rain since 30th June. Neither have most of our other stations in the South-East. @h2020reset#FreeStation
The anatomy of our looming heatwave...
The cut-off low spinning to the west of Portugal is helping intensify the heat over Moroccos & Iberia as we speak. This feature will essentially act like Europe's heat pump.
11th International Conference on Aeolian Research (ICAR XI) will be July 10-14, 2023 in Las Cruces, New Mexico USA. Field trip to White Sands National Park & Jornada Experimental Range. Registration begins 1 Oct. 2022, abstract submission begins 1/1/2023. https://t.co/SyUlRlMqXN