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Global Wind Erosion Reduction Driven by Changing Climate and Land Use

Earth's Future
While significant progress has been achieved in researching water erosion, our understanding of global patterns and the magnitude of wind soil erosion remains limited.
Ranhao Sun, Hongbin He, Yongcai Jing, Song Leng, Guocheng Yang, Yihe Lü, Pasquale Borrelli, Liding Chen, Bojie Fu   +8 more
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Mapping wind erosion hazard with regression-based machine learning algorithms [PDF]

, 2020
Land susceptibility to wind erosion hazard in Isfahan province, Iran, was mapped by testing 16 advanced regression-based machine learning methods: Robust linear regression (RLR), Cforest, Non-convex penalized quantile regression (NCPQR), Neural network ...
Mohammadifar, A., Collins, A. L., Mohammadifar, Aliakbar, Collins, Adrian L., Bui, D.T., Gholami, H., Gholami, Hamid, Tien Bui, Dieu   +7 more
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ESTIMATION OF ANNUAL AVERAGE SOIL LOSS, BASED ON RUSLE MODEL IN KALLAR WATERSHED, BHAVANI BASIN, TAMIL NADU, INDIA [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Soil erosion is a widespread environmental challenge faced in Kallar watershed nowadays. Erosion is defined as the movement of soil by water and wind, and it occurs in Kallar watershed under a wide range of land uses.
S. Abdul Rahaman, S. Aruchamy, R. Jegankumar, S. Abdul Ajeez   +3 more
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Assessment of soil erosion hazard and its relation to land use land cover changes: Case study from alage watershed, central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Heliyon, 2023
Soil erosion by water and wind is among the most crucial land degradation processes in Ethiopia. This is also the case for Alage watershed located in the cental Rift Valley system. This study aimed at assessment of soil erosion hazard and its relation to
Gebeyehu Taye, Tesfaye Teklesilassie, Daniel Teka, Henok Kassa   +3 more
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Wind Speed and Vegetation Coverage in Turn Dominated Wind Erosion Change With Increasing Aridity in Africa

Earth's Future
Wind erosion is one of the main causes of land degradation and desertification. Clarifying the spatiotemporal variations of wind erosion and the dominant factors of its spatial characteristics and the temporal trend will contribute to the establishment ...
Hanbing Zhang, Jian Peng, Chaonan Zhao
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Spatiotemporal distribution of global wind erosion over the past four decades

Environmental Research Letters
Wind erosion is a critical environmental issue that degrades land and air quality, affecting global ecosystems, agriculture, and human health. Yet, on the global scale, the long-term spatial variability and controlling factors of wind erosion remain ...
Zhaohan Chu, Maodian Liu, Qianru Zhang, Xingrui Cai, Yanping Zhang, Tao Hu, Xinran Qiu, Zhe Huang, Xuejun Wang   +8 more
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Quantitative Analysis of Wind Erosion Drivers Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Case Study from Inner Mongolia, China

Land
Wind erosion is a multidimensional, dynamic process driven by natural and anthropogenic factors, but existing statistical methods struggle to capture its complex nonlinear relationships, resulting in incomplete quantification of drivers and their spatial
Yong Mei, Batunacun, Chang An, Yaxin Wang, Yunfeng Hu, Yin Shan, Chunxing Hai   +6 more
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Neglecting non-photosynthetic vegetation leads to serious underestimation of the wind erosion prevention service provided by the Grain for Green Program in Inner Mongolia, China

International Journal of Digital Earth
Wind erosion is a major driver of land degradation in drylands. China’s Grain for Green Program (GGP) aims to mitigate this by converting cropland to forest and grassland.
Licheng Zhao, Cuicui Ji, Gentana Ge, Tong Shen, Hengcong Yang, Tianlan Xiao, Tiancan Wang, Gaoke Yueliang, Xiaosong Li   +8 more
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Assessing Soil Erosion Dynamics in the Bekabad district, Uzbekistan: A Remote Sensing Approach Integrating the RUSLE Model and Google Earth Engine [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Soil erosion is a critical environmental issue affecting agricultural productivity and sustainability globally. In the Bekabad district of Uzbekistan, soil erosion, primarily driven by wind and water, poses significant threats to the fertility and ...
Ibragimov Orif, Inamov Begzod, Alimakhamatova Shakhnoza   +2 more
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Revealing the causes of ecosystem stability changes in the Northern Sand Prevention Belt of China over the past twenty years

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
Wind-driven soil degradation and desertification critically impair regional ecosystem stability and sustainable functioning. The Northern Sand Prevention Belt (NSPB) is a high-intensity wind erosion area in China and a core area for combating ...
Meng Yuan, Ran Lyu, Shiqi Zhang, Shuang Li, Xiao Fu, Gang Wu   +5 more
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