10.0311/FK2/77EA5884AEC35F149A73A2E8C5358FCD
Gillette, Dale
Abrasion of crust at scrape site at Jornada Basin, 1995 to 2019,
Environmental Data Initiative
2019
dataPackage
eng
https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/eml/knb-lter-jrn/210122001/89
The project was designed to test the hypothesis that the abrasion of a
surface crust is proportional to the vertical flux of kinetic energy
delivered by saltating sand grains.This flux energy is related to the
mass flux of saltating grains. The site was selected since it had a
flat crust that was not greatly affected by atmospheric precipitation
or freeze/thaw and moistening/drying cycles. The objective of the
project was to measure the kinetic energy flux during saltation, the
mass flux of saltation particles and to relate those fluxes to the
abrasion of the crust. Data collection is ongoing since 1995.