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Splash–Saltation of Sand due to Wind-Driven Rain

Horizontal Flux and Sediment Transport Rate

Dep. Soil Management and Soil Care, Ghent Univ., Coupure links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Top view of the experimental set-up to determine the horizontal mass flux.

View larger version (28K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Horizontal mass flux q vs. height above the surface z for different combinations of wind shear velocity u* and kinetic energy KEz. The symbols denote the observations.

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. The sediment transport rate Q vs. the scaling factor of Eq. [6] and [7]. The data are derived from wind-driven rain experiments.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Fig. 4. Observed sediment transport rate Q vs. sediment transport rate Q predicted with Eq. [6] or [7] and Eq. [8].

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Fig. 5. The sediment transport rate Q vs. the wind shear velocity u*. The data are derived from rainless wind experiments.