Vermeesch, Pieter (2011) Solitary wave behavior in sand dunes observed from space. Geophysical Research Letters 38 (22), ISSN 0094-8276.
Abstract
Although the dynamics of individual barchan dunes are well understood, their interactions are the subject of ongoing scientific interest and debate. Numerical and analog model predictions of shape-preserving binary dune collisions have been hard to test due to the long timescales over which such processes typically occur. This paper documents ten binary dune collisions in a 45-year time sequence of satellite images from the Bodélé Depression in Chad. The observations confirm that when two barchan dunes collide, a transfer of mass occurs so that one dune appears to travel through the other unscathed, like a solitary wave.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Africa, Sahara, eolian processes, geomorphology, remote sensing, sand dunes |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2014 15:52 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:14 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11178 |
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