Title :
Thermal inertia character in Tengeli Desert of west China and seeking source of dusty storm using remote sensing data
Author :
Zhang, Ren-Hua ; Sun, Xiao-Min ; Su, Hong-Bo ; Tang, Xin-Zhai ; Zhu, Zhi-Lin ; Liu, Zhen-Min
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Geogr. Sci. & Nature Resource Res., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
According to measurements in 2000, thermal inertia inverted by remote sensing data can judge both soil moisture and soil particle size association. Thermal inertia and its differential is one of the judging indices for causing dusty storms. Therefore soil moisture and soil particle size are major factors for causing dusty storms. We show that the Tengeli Desert seems not to be major source of dusty storms in west-north China
Keywords :
dust; moisture; remote sensing; soil; storms; AD 2000; Tengeli Desert; West China; dusty storms; remote sensing data; soil moisture; soil particle size; thermal inertia character; Storms;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978342
