Bridging the gap between field data and global models: current strategies in aeolian research

✍ Scribed by Joanna Bullard

• Book ID: 102197078
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-1269
• DOI: 10.1002/esp.1958

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Modern global models of earth‐atmosphere‐ocean processes are becoming increasingly sophisticated but still require validation against empirical data and observations. This commentary reports on international initiatives amongst aeolian researchers that seek to combine field‐based data sets and geomorphological frameworks for improving the quality of data available to constrain and validate global models. These include a second iteration of the Dust Indicators and Records from Terrestrial Marine Palaeoenvironments (DIRTMAP2) database, the Digital Atlas of Sand Seas and Dunefields of the World and a new geomorphology‐based land surface map produced by the QUEST (Quantifying Uncertainties in the Earth System) Working Group on Dust. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.