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Diversity of ionizing radiation‐resistant bacteria obtained from the Taklimakan Desert

Journal of Basic Microbiology, 2013
So far, little is known about the diversity of the radiation‐resistant microbes of the hyperarid Taklimakan Desert. In this study, ionizing radiation (IR)‐resistant bacteria from two sites in Xinjiang were investigated. After exposing the arid (water content of 0.8 ± 0.3%) and non‐arid (water content of 21.3 ± 0.9%) sediment samples to IR of 3000 Gy ...
Li Zhi-Han, Yu, Xue-Song, Luo, Ming, Liu, Qiaoyun, Huang   +3 more
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The analysis of water vapor distribution over Taklimakan Desert

Science China Earth Sciences, 2011
Up to now, all analysis of the distribution of water vapor over the Taklimakan desert area only depends on limited ground measurements and radio soundings setting mostly on the outer margin area. This paper establishes an approach to retrieve the water vapor over the desert at high temporal and spatial resolutions by the use of FY2C geostationary ...
XiaoYang Liu, JieTai Mao, Fan Zhang, CaiXia Cui, Dian Liu, Jun Li, Ling Zhao   +6 more
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Threshold Velocity for Saltation Activity in the Taklimakan Desert

Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2017
The threshold velocity is an indicator of a soil’s susceptibility to saltation activity and is also an important parameter in dust emission models. In this study, the saltation activity, atmospheric conditions, and soil conditions were measured from 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009 in the Taklimakan Desert, China.
Xinghua Yang, Qing He, Ali Matimin, Fan Yang, Wen Huo, Xinchun Liu, Tianliang Zhao, Shuanghe Shen   +7 more
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Diurnal characteristics of turbulent intermittency in the Taklimakan Desert

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2017
A case study is performed to investigate the behavior of turbulent intermittency in the Taklimakan Desert using an intuitive, direct, and adaptive method, the arbitrary-order Hilbert spectral analysis (arbitrary-order HSA). Decomposed modes from the vertical wind speed series confirm the dyadic filter-bank essence of the empirical mode decomposition ...
Wei Wei, Minzhong Wang, Hongsheng Zhang, Qing He, Mamtimin Ali, Yinjun Wang   +5 more
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Ground surface conditions of oases around the Taklimakan Desert

Advances in Space Research, 2007
Abstract Land cover change of the oases surrounding Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang Uyghur in the past 40 years was examined by means of satellite images. From the results of the analysis of these images, the following have been explained. The farmland utilization ratio in average stands at 0.28 in the northern edge of Taklimakan Desert.
T. Ishiyama, N. Saito, S. Fujikawa, K. Ohkawa, S. Tanaka   +4 more
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Sand harm in Taklimakan Desert highway and sand control

Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2003
Reputed as a wonderful achievement of the world’s highway construction history, the Taklimakan Desert highway is now facing serious sand drift encroachment problems due to its 447-km-long passage of sand sea consisting of crescent dunes, barchan chains, compound transverse dune ridges and complex megadunes.
Zhiwen Han, Tao Wang, Qingwei Sun, Zhibao Dong, Xunming Wang   +4 more
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Morphology and mineralogical composition of sandblasting dust particles from the Taklimakan Desert

Science of The Total Environment, 2022
The physicochemical characteristics of dust particles from the Taklimakan Desert are the fundamental basis for the assessment of particle variation during their long-distance transport and the subsequent environmental effects. In this study, 43,222 individual sandblasting dust particles, which were mobilised using a chamber with surface soils of sand ...
Tafeng, Hu, Feng, Wu, Yingpan, Song, Suixin, Liu, Jing, Duan, Yuqing, Zhu, Junji, Cao, Daizhou, Zhang   +7 more
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New evidence on the age of the Taklimakan Desert

Geology, 2009
The Taklimakan Desert is the world's second-largest shifting sand desert, located in the rain shadow of the Tibetan Plateau. The initiation of desert formation in the Asian interior is one of the most prominent climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere during the Cenozoic Era. Dating the earliest formation of this desert is important for understanding
Jimin Sun, Zhenqing Zhang, Liyuan Zhang
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Aeolian landforms in the Taklimakan Desert

1984
The Taklimakan Desert, the largest desert in the People’s Republic of China (covering an area of 337,600 km2) is found in the center of the Tarim Basin. The following is an attempt at explaining the origin of the sand, the morphological characteristics of the dunes, and their distribution and movement in this desert.
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Desert disturbance assessments of regional oil exploitation by Aster and ETM+ images in Taklimakan Desert China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2007
To feed its rapidly growing energy demand, oil exploitation in China has never been more intensive. The most obvious characteristics of oil exploitation are progressive and regional, which can be monitored by remote sensing, such as land use and cover change, either perpetual or temporary, during oil field development such as construction of oil well ...
Ouyang, Wei, Hao, Fang-Hua, Fu, Yongshuo, Zhang, Jiaxun   +3 more
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