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Dust emission from different soil types in the northwest and the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
Nirmala D. Desouza
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Department of Physics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
D. Blaise
Department of Soil Physics, Indian Institute of Soil Science, Nabi Bagh, Bhopal, India
Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur, India
Rajnish Kurchania, M.S. Qureshi
Department of Physics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India
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<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065">Forster <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#44;</span> 2007</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045">DeMott <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2010</a>&#41;&#46; Like arid regions&#44; semi-arid regions face the problem of wind erosion and experience dust storms &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050">Desouza <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2013</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Wind erosion leading to dust emission results from the impact of high wind speed on different types of soil surfaces&#46; The impact of dust storms due to wind erosion can be evaluated by determining the dust concentration&#46; This can be done by modeling dust emissions over different types of soils in arid and semi arid regions of the world&#46; The development of the dust emission model requires pertinent datasets of meteorological and soil characteristics&#46; For the last decade&#44; input databases have been developed alongside to the advancements of explicit dust emission models&#46; For continental scale applications&#44; the development and the use of accurate databases &#40;surface&#44; soil&#44; and meteorology&#41; are prerequisites to model mineral dust correctly &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115">Laurent <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2010</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Within the deserts there are certain regions called as &#8220;hot spots&#8221; of dust production which can emit large amounts of dust&#46; One among them is the Thar Desert&#44; which is considered as the preferential source area &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085">Ginoux <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2001</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0190">Tegen <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2002</a>&#41;&#46; The Thar Desert situated in the northwest of India occupies an area greater than 20 million hectares&#46; This region has very little vegetal cover due to its arid nature&#46; In this part of the world&#44; wind erosion is a serious problem because strong winds greater than 10<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>km h<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> are common during the months of April to July&#46; Wind speeds greater than 30 to 50<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>km h<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> are also experienced&#46; These strong winds cause dust storms and occasionally sandstorms leading to severe wind erosion and further land degradation &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0175">Santra <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span>&#44; 2006</a>&#41;&#46; The region of Thar Desert adjoins the fertile belt of the northern Indo-Gangetic Plains &#40;IGP&#41; of north India&#46; The westerly winds transport sand and dust from the Thar Desert to the IGP during the pre-monsoon season &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070">Gautam <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2011</a>&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Thus far&#44; numerous studies conducted on dust storms in the Indian subcontinent were related to the radiative and optical properties of dust &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0205">Tripathi <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#44;</span> 2005</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135">Mishra and Tripathi&#44; 2008</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105">Kaskaoutis <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2012</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0200">Tiwari and Singh&#44; 2013</a>&#41;&#46; However&#44; none of these studies for the Indian subcontinent reported about dust flux and emission efficiency&#46; Therefore&#44; the process of dust emission over India needs to be explored&#46; Identification of dust emitting sources will enable us to focus on significant dust emitting regions over India and to characterize the dust emitting rates in response to environmental conditions&#46; With such knowledge we will be better able to improve global dust models&#46; Further&#44; this data can be used as an input in dust emission models that would improve accuracy in predicting dust storms globally&#46; Application of complex emission schemes in global and regional models is hampered by lack of required input data at scales of application as well as the inaccuracies of the driving meteorological and climate models &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080">Gillette <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 1974</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010">Alfaro <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 1997</a>&#41;&#46; Currently&#44; theoretical knowledge predicts the vertical dust flux in models if the required input parameters are accurately determined &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115">Laurent <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2010</a>&#41;&#46; The main objective of this paper was to investigate the role of soil particle size and texture and to study the IGP&#46; We used a dust emission scheme that makes use of particle density&#44; air density&#44; friction Reynolds number&#44; and friction velocity to obtain the threshold friction velocity and finally compute the horizontal dust flux&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Methodology</span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;1</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Study site</span><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The northwest and the IGP in north India were included in the study area &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#41;&#46; In the northwest we studied three locations&#44; namely Jaisalmer&#44; Bikaner&#44; and Jaipur&#44; which are in close proximity to the Thar Desert and have the maximum dust activity&#46; Four locations &#40;the most populated cities&#41; were selected in the IGP&#44; namely Patiala&#44; New Delhi&#44; Kanpur&#44; and Gwalior&#46; The IGP serves as a good source of aerosols as it is surrounded by aerosol emitting sources &#40;like dry riverbeds&#41;&#44; making it a hot spot for aerosol research &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0205">Tripathi <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2005</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135">Mishra and Tripathi&#44; 2008</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105">Kaskaoutis <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2012</a>&#41;&#46; The entire northwestern region is arid and hot&#46; Jaisalmer receives an annual rainfall less than 200<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm&#46; Bikaner has a mean annual rainfall ranging<a name="p3"></a> from 200 to 300<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm&#44; while Jaipur receives about 450 to 600<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm rainfall annually&#46; These areas are abundant with sandy soil types interspersed with dunes&#46; The IGP has soils predominantly of alluvial origin&#46; Patiala has a dry and hot summer and cold winters&#46; New Delhi lies along the bed of the river Yamuna with an annual rainfall of approximately 675<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm&#46; Kanpur receives approximately 850<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm of annual rainfall and lies close to the riverbed of the River Ganges&#46; Gwalior lies to the south of New Delhi on the banks of River Chambal with an annual rainfall of 970<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mm&#46; Most of the rainfall at all these locations is received from end of June to September&#46; The global land cover map obtained from <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110">Kim <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;2013&#41;</a> shows bare ground over northwestern India&#44; shrubs&#44; bare ground and cultivated crops over north India and the IGP &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46; Also the source function map&#44; which represents the probability of dust uplift&#44; showed a value nearly equal to unity over the great Indian Thar Desert&#44; manifesting its importance as a good dust emitting source&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;2</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0035">Soil sample collection and analysis</span><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Surface soil samples &#40;0-0&#46;15 m&#41; were collected from three spots close to the India Meteorological Department observatory&#46; Soil samples were air-dried before the texture analysis&#44; which was done by determining the percentage of sand&#44; silt and clay in a given soil following the pipette method outlined by <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075">Gee and Bauder &#40;1986&#41;</a>&#46; Based on the particle size distribution&#44; soils were classified using the USDA soil texture triangle chart&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;3</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Data used</span><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">As wind is the only driving force for dust emission to occur&#44; the study of dust emission requires the knowledge of 10 m wind speed&#44; the threshold velocity of wind erosion&#44; and finally the surface condition under which the dust emission takes place &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110">Kim <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2013</a>&#41;&#46; Wind speed at 10 m height was obtained from <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/">www&#46;wunderground&#46;com</a>&#46; These data sets are often assimilated into numerical weather prediction models that produce gridded and even simulated weather forecasts&#44; which may be for hours or days&#46; Data corresponding to the pre-monsoon season for the period 2005-2013 was used&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;4</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Dust emission</span><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The methodology followed in this work is based on previous dust emission schemes for regional &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130">Marticorena <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 1997</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0145">Perez <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2006</a>&#41; and global modeling systems &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0190">Tegen <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span>&#44; 2002</a>&#41;&#46; An important factor in dust emission is wind velocity&#46; When wind velocity exceeds a certain threshold&#44; dust emission takes place&#46; This wind friction velocity is called threshold friction velocity&#46; The empirical equations derived and analyzed by <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130">Marticorena <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;1997&#41;</a> based on formulations of <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100">Iversen and White &#40;1982&#41;</a> were used to calculate the threshold friction velocity u&#42;th&#46; Formula &#40;1&#41; is used for the situation where 0&#46;03 &#60; B &#60; 10&#44; whereas for the situation where B &#62; 10&#44; formula &#40;2&#41; is used&#46;<a name="p4"></a><elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0010"></elsevierMultimedia></p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">where<elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0015"></elsevierMultimedia></p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">where <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">B</span> is the friction Reynolds number&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">D</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span></span> is the diameter of the soil particle&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#961;</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">p</span></span> is the particle density&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#961;</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">a</span></span> is the air density&#44; and g the acceleration due to gravity&#46;</p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The expression for fluid saltation threshold due to the presence of soil moisture&#44; derived by <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060">Fecan <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;1999&#41;</a> for all soil types&#44; is given in Eqs&#46; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#eq0020">&#40;3&#41;</a> and <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#eq0025">&#40;4&#41;</a>&#46;<elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0020"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0025"></elsevierMultimedia></p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">where <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">u &#42;</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">wt</span></span> and u&#42;ft are respectively the fluid saltation thresholds in the presence and absence of moisture&#59; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">w</span> is the soils&#8217; volumetric water content in percent&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The amount of water that can be adsorbed onto the soil is a function of the clay content&#46; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060">Fecan <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;1999&#41;</a> obtained the expression for water adsorption using the soil clay content given in Eq&#46; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#eq0030">&#40;5&#41;</a>&#46;<elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0030"></elsevierMultimedia></p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">where <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">c</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">s</span></span> is the soil clay content in percent&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">2&#46;5</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Dust emission efficiency</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">To determine the dust emission efficiency &#40;&#945;&#41; and mass of suspended particles with diameter less than 20<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#956;m we used the horizontal and vertical flux of particles mobilized at the soil surface &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125">Marticorena and Bergametti&#44; 1995</a>&#41;&#46; The vertical dust flux &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">F</span>&#41; corresponds to the mass of suspended particles with diameter less than 20<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#956;m passing through a surface parallel to the soil &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0170">Sabre <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2007</a>&#41;&#46; The horizontal flux &#40;<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">H</span>&#41; corresponds to the total mass of materials transported in saltation movement&#46; According to <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0180">Shao <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;1993&#41;</a> the ratio of vertical dust flux to horizontal dust flux &#40;i&#46;e&#46;&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">F&#47;H</span> &#61; &#945;&#41;&#44; provides the efficiency of dust emission or soil bombardment&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The expression for horizontal dust flux &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0215">White&#44; 1979</a>&#41; is as follows&#58;<elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0035"></elsevierMultimedia></p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">where&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">u&#42;</span> is the friction velocity<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">&#44;&#961;</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">a</span></span> is the density of air&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">u &#42;</span><span class="elsevierStyleInf"><span class="elsevierStyleItalic">th</span></span> is the threshold friction velocity&#44; and <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">g</span> is the gravitational constant&#46;</p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">According to <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125">Marticorena and Bergametti &#40;1995&#41;</a> and <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0180">Shao <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;1993&#41;</a>&#44; the expression for vertical dust flux is given in Eq&#46; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#eq0040">&#40;7&#41;</a>&#58;<elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0040"></elsevierMultimedia></p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">where <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">C</span> &#61; 2&#46;78&#44; &#948; is the source function&#44; <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">H</span> is the horizontal dust flux&#44; and &#945; is the horizontal to vertical flux ratio&#44; which is called efficiency of the dust release processes using Eq&#46; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#eq0045">&#40;8&#41;</a>&#58;<elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0045"></elsevierMultimedia></p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Eq&#46; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#eq0045">&#40;8&#41;</a> is valid for soils with clay percentage up to 20&#37;&#46; For soils with clay content &#62; 20&#37;&#44; sandblasting efficiency is set constant to values proposed by <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0190">Tegen <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al</span>&#46; &#40;2002&#41;</a>&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Understanding the minimum value of the threshold is very important in dust emission physics&#46; Dust aerosols are only rarely lifted by wind &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120">Loosmore and Hunt&#44; 2000</a>&#41;&#59; indeed&#44; they are predominantly emitted by the impact of saltating particles on the soil surface &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080">Gillette <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 1974</a>&#41;&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Results and discussion</span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3&#46;1</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">Topography</span><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Topographic features of the surface are useful in determining the global distribution of dust sources &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085">Ginoux <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2001</a>&#41;&#46; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Figure 1</a> indicates that the northwest and the IGP are associated with aeolian and alluvial soils&#44; respectively&#44; which are readily erodible &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0185">Sharda <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2013</a>&#41;&#46; These regions&#44; therefore&#44; can be associated with lows that have a<a name="p5"></a> deep accumulation of alluvial sediments &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085">Ginoux <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2001</a>&#41;&#46; The sediments are composed of fine particles&#44; which can be easily eroded by winds&#46; Thus&#44; physiochemical properties of surface soil have a significant influence on the occurrence and development of wind erosion leading to dust emission in the study area&#46; Apart from this&#44; another study conducted by <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110">Kim <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;2013&#41;</a> showed that the topographical depression is high over the Thar Desert&#44; parts of north India and the IGP &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46; Thus the probability of dust lift would be higher over these regions&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3&#46;2</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0065">Soil texture and dust emission</span><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Dust emission as a result of wind erosion is related to regional geological environments and is affected by soil texture &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005">Abuduwaili and Mu&#44; 2002</a>&#41;&#46; Due to differences in soil texture&#44; we observed spatial heterogeneity in dust flux and dust emission efficiency&#46; Soil texture of the different regions under study is given in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table I</a>&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The soils of Bikaner and Jaisalmer are sandy in nature and interspersed with interdunes while those of Jaipur are loamy sands&#46; Thus&#44; these soils provide low dust flux values&#46; On the other hand&#44; in the IGP region&#44; sandy loam to fine sandy loam and fine silty loam soil types are predominant &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140">Murthy <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 1982</a>&#41;&#46; Some locations such as Patiala and Gwalior have soils containing more than 20&#37; clay&#46; At Patiala&#44; clay content was greater than 60&#37; in the clayey soils&#46; These soil types occur&#44; besides the fine silty loam soils&#46; Therefore&#44; areas with greater clay content will have low dust flux and emission efficiency than locations with lower clay content&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3&#46;3</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Soil moisture and dust emission</span><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Apart from the percentage of sand&#44; silt and clay&#44; soil moisture content is also an important factor that affects soil erosion and dust emission&#46; If the soil is moist&#44; the viscosity of soil would increase and aggregation between soil particles will also increase&#46; Accordingly&#44; threshold friction velocity&#44; windblown sand speed&#44; and sand and dust particle transport rate would be altered &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060">Fecan <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 1999</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055">Dong <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2002</a>&#41;&#46; The maximum amount of adsorbed water w&#8217; as a function of increasing amount of clay is given in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table I</a>&#46; In the northwest regions of India&#44; the least amount of soil-adsorbed water can be found over the locations of Jaisalmer and Bikaner&#44; since the clay content there is &#60; 10&#37; and has more coarse particles&#46; The amount of water adsorbed over Jaipur is the highest because the soils had average clay content of 17&#46;5&#37;&#46; Water adsorption is governed by electrostatic interactions of the mineral surface with the polar water molecules&#46; Since sandy soils generally contain lower density of net electric charges substantially less water is adsorbed compared to clayey soils &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090">Hillel&#44; 1980</a>&#41;&#46; Since water adsorbs more readily onto clay soils &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090">Hillel&#44; 1980</a>&#41;&#44; the volumetric fraction of water that soil can adsorb before capillary forces &#40;&#969;&#8217;&#41; become substantial increases with an increase in clay content as is evident from data in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table I</a>&#46; For these soils the dominant dust production process is not saltation but abrasion&#46; In sandy soils&#44; presence of soil moisture creates substantial inter-particle forces that inhibit the initiation of saltation &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035">Chepil&#44; 1956</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160">Pye&#44; 1987</a>&#41;&#46; When relative humidity is low &#40;&#60; 65&#37;&#41;&#44; inter-particle forces are produced primarily by bonding of adjacent adsorbed water layers&#44; whereas<a name="p6"></a> for high relative humidity &#40;&#62; 65&#37;&#41; this occurs primarily through the formation of water wedges around points of contact &#40;capillary forces&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090">Hillel&#44; 1980</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0165">Ravi <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2006</a>&#41;&#46; Water bridges form in sandy soils with low soil moisture contents compared to soils having greater amounts of clay&#44; thereby producing substantial capillary force &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020">Belly&#44; 1964</a>&#41;&#46; From this data&#44; we expect that dust emission efficiency would be lowest at locations containing high clay content such as Gwalior and Patialaclay because of strong cohesive forces&#44; compared to other locations where sandy to sandy loam and silt loam soils are present&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">3&#46;4</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Threshold friction velocity and horizontal dust flux</span><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We observed spatial heterogeneity for the threshold friction velocity over the northwest and north of the IGP&#46; Further&#44; surface roughness varied over this region&#46; A change from rough to smooth usually increases the surface frictional stress consequently leading to a weakening of wind at the surface&#46; The surface roughness map &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0015">Fig&#46; 3</a>&#41; shows that the surface is smooth over the great Indian Thar Desert as the surface roughness values are very low &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150">Prigent <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2005</a>&#59; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025">Cheng <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2008</a>&#41;&#46; Also&#44; the value of surface roughness over most parts of the locations in northwest India &#40;Jaisalmer&#44; Bikaner and Jaipur&#41; ranges from 0&#46;001 to 0&#46;01&#46; The value of surface roughness over New Delhi and its adjoining regions varies from 0&#46;03 to 0&#46;06&#46; This change in surface roughness from the Thar Desert towards New Delhi leads to a weakening of winds at the surface&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0020">Fig&#46; 4</a>&#46; Bikaner is similar to Jaisalmer&#59; however&#44; the soils of Bikaner consist of more fine sand particles than those over Jaisalmer&#44; where they are coarse in nature&#46; Similarly&#44; Jaipur has a larger proportion of fine-sized soil particles and clay content than those for Bikaner and Jaisalmer&#46; Thus the threshold friction velocity is relatively smaller at Jaipur and Bikaner as compared to Jaisalmer&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0020"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Threshold friction velocity in the IGP was lower than over the northwest India because these locations contained more fine soil particles&#46; The threshold friction velocity at which dust emission was initiated ranged from 0&#46;21 to 0&#46;35 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig&#46; 5</a>&#41;&#46; At Patiala&#44; with clay soil types&#44; threshold friction velocity was the highest and dust emission was initiated at a friction velocity of 0&#46;35 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig&#46; 5a</a>&#41;&#46; On the other hand&#44; at the same location where silty loam soil types were present&#44; the threshold friction velocity was 0&#46;26 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#46; Dust emission was initiated at a threshold friction velocity of 0&#46;23&#44; 0&#46;22 and 0&#46;21 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> for New Delhi&#44; Kanpur and Gwalior&#44; respectively &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig&#46; 5 b&#44; c&#44; d</a>&#41;&#46; Our results are in accordance with the experimental data of <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015">Bagnold &#40;1941&#41;</a>&#44; <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030">Chepil &#40;1945&#41;</a> and <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0130">Marticorena <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;</span> &#40;1997&#41;</a>&#44; thus confirming that threshold friction velocity is size dependent&#46; We too observed a decrease in threshold friction velocity with a decrease in average soil particle diameter up to<a name="p7"></a><a name="p8"></a> 71&#46;1<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>&#956;m&#44; followed by an increase with a further decrease in particle size in clay soil types&#46; This is because inter-particle cohesion forces are stronger in soils containing a greater fraction of very fine soil particles &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095">Iversen <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 1976</a>&#41;&#46; The values of threshold friction velocity reported in this study in the desert areas are similar to those reported for the Taklimakan Desert in China&#44; which has a predominance of sand and low vegetation cover &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0220">Yang <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#44;</span> 2011</a>&#41;&#46; Threshold friction velocities reported in this study for the IGP&#44; where most of the land is under farming&#44; has slightly lower values than those reported in China and elsewhere &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0210">Wang <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">et al&#46;&#44;</span> 2007</a>&#41;&#46; These differences may be due to the fact that in summer &#40;April to June&#41; the land in this part of the world is bare with very little vegetative cover&#46; Cultivation begins soon after the monsoon rains are received by the end of June&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0025"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The horizontal dust flux over Jaisalmer and Bikaner at a friction velocity of 0&#46;6 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> was 0&#46;082 and 0&#46;083 kg m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#44; respectively &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0020">Fig&#46; 4a&#44; b</a>&#41;&#46; At Patiala&#44; in the IGP&#44; horizontal dust flux was 0&#46;073 and 0&#46;082 kg m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> for clay and silt loam soil types&#44; respectively &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig&#46; 5a</a>&#41;&#46; Values of dust flux were similar for the other locations in the IGP &#40;0&#46;083 to 0&#46;084 kg m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig&#46; 5b&#44; c&#44; d</a>&#41;&#46; However&#44; at a higher friction velocity &#40;1 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#41;&#44; horizontal dust flux was highest at Patiala with clay soil types and at Jaisalmer with sandy soils &#40;0&#46;39 kg m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#41;&#46; In general&#44; the northwest had higher horizontal dust flux &#40;0&#46;382 to 0&#46;387 kg m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#41; than the IGP &#40;0&#46;38 kg m<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#41;&#46; Because of differences in surface roughness&#44; soil texture&#44; and threshold friction velocity&#44; horizontal dust flux varied across locations&#46;</p><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Dust emission efficiency is a ratio of horizontal to vertical flux and is a function of friction velocity&#46; Dust release efficiency over various locations is given in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table II</a>&#46; Dust emission efficiency was similar across locations in north and northwest India&#44; except for Patialaclay &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0010">Table II</a>&#41;&#44; which has clay content in excess of 60&#37;&#59; therefore&#44; soil cohesion is stronger than in the arid regions of northwest and other parts of the IGP&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0155" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The estimation of horizontal dust flux and dust emission efficiency done in this study by using empirical equations has regional limitations&#46; We employed climatological land cover data&#46; The time variation of surface roughness was not taken into account in calculating dust emission&#46; Such an approach may be inadequate where time variation of land cover change is significant and may cause significant errors in estimating dust emission&#46; This is a possibility for the IGP&#46; However&#44; we believe this approach is adequate because there is little vegetal cover in permanent desert location areas such as the Thar Desert&#46; Furthermore&#44; even the IGP has very little vegetal cover from the harvest of the main crop wheat in April until the onset of the monsoon&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleLabel">4</span><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0080">Conclusions</span><p id="par0160" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We estimated horizontal dust flux and dust emission efficiency for seven locations&#44; three in the northwest &#40;Jaisalmer&#44; Bikaner and Jaipur&#41; and four in the IGP of north India &#40;Patiala&#44; New Delhi&#44; Kanpur and Gwalior&#41;&#44; using empirical equations and land cover data&#46; From our study&#44; we conclude that surface roughness increases from the northwest parts of India &#40;Thar Desert&#41; towards New Delhi&#46; Further&#44; threshold friction velocity was higher over Jaisalmer and Bikaner than in the IGP&#46; Dust emission was initiated at a threshold friction velocity of 0&#46;27 and 0&#46;24 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span>&#44; respectively&#44; compared to 0&#46;21 to 0&#46;35 m s<span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#8211;1</span> in the IGP&#46; The northwest regions close to the Thar Desert have coarse soil particles&#46; Therefore&#44; the threshold friction velocity at which dust emission was initiated was higher than in the IGP&#46; Horizontal dust flux was low over Jaisalmer and Bikaner at lower values of friction velocity than those found in the IGP&#46; But the trend was opposite at a higher friction velocity&#46; The regions of the IGP &#40;Patiala&#44; New Delhi and Kanpur&#41; had relatively higher dust flux because of the greater clay content found in their sandy loam and silt loam soil types&#44; as compared to those at Jaisalmer and Bikaner&#46; However&#44; where clay content exceeded 20&#37;&#44; &#40;Patiala<span class="elsevierStyleInf">clay</span> and Gwalior&#41;&#44; horizontal dust flux and emission efficiency were low&#46; Future studies are needed to validate horizontal dust flux on a real time<a name="p9"></a> basis&#46; Further&#44; this region encompasses a wide variety of soil types&#44; therefore their influence on vertical dust flux needs to be estimated&#46;</p></span></span>"
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