Powerful winds tore through the New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle on Friday, with gusts approaching 100 mph in some places.

There are days when the sand blows ceaselessly, blanketing the remains of a powerful dynasty that ruled Egypt 5,000 years ago. When the wind dies down and the sands are still, a long shadow casts ...

The sand eroded by wind from the deflation basin and the adjacent ... and strong winds with little vegetation present and dunes blow inland directly from the beach (Hesp & Thom 1990, Hesp 2002).

Transport by wind takes place almost entirely within ... Bagnold, R. A. The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes. London, UK: Methuen, 1941. Davis, J. L. Geographical Variation in Coastal ...

Wind tunnel experiments and numerical simulations further demonstrated its effectiveness in altering wind-blown sand flow patterns and significantly reducing sand transport near the ground surface.