Wind Erosion in Western Queensland Australia

List of TablesChapter 1: IntroductionTable 1.1 Chronology of early surveys of land affected by wind erosion inAustralia (1900-1990) .........................................................................................4Chapter 2: Land Erodibility to Wind: Systems AnalysisTable 2.1 Summary of selected erodibility factors used in the Wind ErosionEquation (WEQ) model.....................................................................................27Table 2.2 Wind Erodibility Groups and Wind Erodibility Index for soils in theUnited States (after Skidmore et al., 1994). ......................................................28Chapter 3: Approaches to Modelling Land Erodibility to WindTable 3.1 Components of the Wind Erosion Equation (after Woodruff andSiddoway, 1965)................................................................................................72Table 3.2 Definitions of the WEPS sub-models used to simulate soil loss due towind erosion (after Hagen, 1991)......................................................................75Chapter 4: A Framework for Modelling Temporal Variations in SoilErodibilityTable 4.1 Summary of a selection of studies examining: (a) soil aggregationchanges in response to climate and management variability; (b) soilcrust disturbance effects on soil erodibility; and (c) soil crust responsesto trampling disturbance by livestock. ............................................................123Chapter 5: A Model to Predict Land Susceptibility to Wind Erosion inWestern Queensland, AustraliaTable 5.1 Dust-event frequencies at stations used for model validation. Dust eventclasses listed for each station include dust event frequencies for allevent types (All); events with hazes removed (NoHz); events with hazesand dust whirls removed (NoHzWr); and Dust Storm Index (DSI)values...............................................................................................................146xx