Wind Erosion in Western Queensland Australia
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Chapter 7 – Land Erodibility Dynamics 1980-2006Mapping and monitoring land susceptibility to wind erosion is required to enhance landmanagement to combat land degradation and desertification of dryland environments(Oldeman, 1994, Sivakumar, 2007). Quantifying rates of anthropogenic (accelerated) andnaturally occurring wind erosion is a fundamental component of this work. This is dependenton an understanding of factors driving variations in dust emissions at the landscape scale(Mahowald et al., 2003b). Modeling spatial and temporal patterns in land erodibility can beused to establish baseline levels of variability in the landscape response to climate and landmanagement conditions. The effects of climate and land management changes on potentialerosion can then be assessed with knowledge of the likely response of landscapes to theseexternal drivers. Increasing pressures on natural resource use in rangelands (Galvin et al.,2008), and increasing aridity and rainfall variability in the sub-tropics (Hu and Fu, 2007;Meehl et al., 2007) make understanding these land surface-climate-management dynamicsessential for the sustainable use of the world’s drylands.A number of techniques have been employed to determine the location and extent of areassusceptible to wind erosion. Prospero et al. (2002) and Washington et al. (2003) used aerosoloptical thickness data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) to characterizepersistent global dust source areas. The studies demonstrated an association of source areaswith internally draining river systems and topographic depressions. Modeling dust sourceareas using topographic erodibility indicators was subsequently employed by Ginoux et al.(2001), and Zender et al. (2003b) in a comparison of dust emission simulations usinggeomorphic and hydrological erodibility factors. The application of surface reflectancefactors derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data todefine erodible land areas has also been investigated (Grini et al., 2005). A limitation of theseapproaches is their coarse spatial resolution (typically ~1° lat./long.) and inability to detectlocal temporal variations in source strength (land erodibility).At the regional scale (10 4 km 2 ), maps of areas affected by wind erosion tend to be interpretiveand based on climatic indicators (e.g. aridity), or on the frequency at which dust storms arerecorded over a particular area (Leys, 1999). Similarly, temporal changes in land erodibilityhave been inferred from seasonal and annual trends in observed dust-storm frequencies(Goudie and Middleton, 1992). The detail of spatial and temporal variations in landerodibility is therefore very coarse, as vast distances (>100 km) often separate stationsrecording dust events in arid and semi-arid areas (McTainsh and Leys, 1993). The growing168
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