Advances in Earth Science ›› 2014, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (8): 875-889. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2014.08.0875

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Classification and Representation of Factors Affecting Soil Wind Erosion in a Model

Xueyong Zou 1, 2( ), Chunlai Zhang 1, 2, Hong Cheng 1, 2, LIqiang Kang 1, 2, Xiaoxu Wu 3, Chunping Chang 4, Zhoulong Wang 5, Feng Zhang 1, Jifeng Li 1, Chengchen Liu 1, Bo Liu 1, Jinlu Tian 1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
    2. MOE Engineering Research Center of Desertification and Blown-sand Control, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
    3.College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
    4. College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050016, China
    5. College of Geography and Planning, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China
  • Received:2014-05-16 Revised:2014-07-21 Online:2014-09-16 Published:2014-09-17

Xueyong Zou, Chunlai Zhang, Hong Cheng, LIqiang Kang, Xiaoxu Wu, Chunping Chang, Zhoulong Wang, Feng Zhang, Jifeng Li, Chengchen Liu, Bo Liu, Jinlu Tian. Classification and Representation of Factors Affecting Soil Wind Erosion in a Model[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2014, 29(8): 875-889.

Soil erosion is an interaction of multi factors including wind, vegetation, soil characteristics, land use, precipitation, micro-geomorphology and so on. It is a continuous dynamic process occurring on airflow-soil interface in the specific geographical locations. Soil erosion empirical model, based on statistic theory, is difficult to avoid overlap of some factors affecting soil wind erosion between sub-models and not enable sub-models to be strictly independent from each other, thereby leading to lack of theoretical basis for modeling. Such empirical model is also not able to objectively reflect dynamic process of soil erosion. On the basis of clarifying basic concepts of soil erosion and analyzing the global research background and inadequacy, we proposed a new theoretical framework for soil erosion models based on wind erosion dynamics theory and the classification as well as representation of factors affecting soil wind erosion under the framework. We also elaborated the rationality of both the framework and the classification as well as the representation of factors affecting soil wind erosion, and further explored the research approaches on the latter.

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