Incident Angle of Saltating Particles in Wind-Blown Sand

Lin-Tao Fu, Tian-Li Bo, Hai-Hua Gu and Xiao-Jing Zheng

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 7, 1-6

Abstract: Incident angle of saltating particles plays a very important role in aeolian events. In this paper, the incident angles of sand particles near the sand bed were measured in wind tunnel. It reveals that the incident angles range widely from 0° to 180° and thereby the means of angles are larger than published data. Surprisingly, it is found the proportion that angles of 5°–15° occupy is far below previous reports. The measuring height is probably the most important reason for the measurement differences between this study and previous investigations.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067935

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