Application of thermal anemometry and high-frequency measurement of mass flux to aeolian sediment transport research
This paper analyses the use and potential of thermal anemometry and high-frequency measurements of sand flux in the harsh environment of particle-laden air flows. It reports the development and testing of both an armoured hot-wire system for field
and laboratory use and a new, non-intrusive, optical sensor for the detection of aeolian mass flux in wind tunnels.
Using a study conducted in southwest Niger the aim here is to illustrate the difficulty in satisfying the assumptions for using the Cs 137 technique to estimate net soil flux, and to demonstrate that these assumptions may be satisfied to overcome