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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 962-971.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2015.00086

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Progress and Prospect of Research on Wind-water Complex Erosion

Yang Huimin1,2,5, Wang Jing'ai1,2,3, Zou Xueyong3,4, Shi Peijun3,4   

  1. 1. School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Regional Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    4. Ministry of Education Key Lab of Environment Change and Natural Disaster, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
    5. College of Life Science & Technology, Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, Hebei, China
  • Received:2015-03-03 Revised:2015-03-26 Online:2016-07-20 Published:2016-07-20

Abstract: Wind-water complex erosion is a common type of soil erosion in arid and semi-arid regions. It is a process of material redistribution on soil surface driven by synergistic effects between two-phase exogenic forces of wind and water. Firstly, based on analysis of types of wind-water complex erosion, we divided the impact factors into erosion factor, soil anti-erodibility factor and disturbance factor, and elaborated mutual feedback relationship among the impact factors. Secondly, from the perspectives of global scale, regional scale and local scale, we summarized differences of wind-water complex erosion in spatial scale. Thirdly, we reviewed superpositions of erosivity and erosion energy of wind and rain in wind-water joint erosion, alternation of driving forces, responses of underlying surface and disturbance factors to wind-water alternating erosion, and elaborated the contribution of the two driving forces in total erosion amounts and its synergistic effects in wind-water alternating erosion. Finally, wind-water complex erosion based on experiment is considered as foundation for understanding the process and mechanism of wind-water complex erosion. In future research, we need to expand studies of the process segments to the whole process, enhance studies of the response of underlying surface in the complex erosion, attach importance to restraining effect between wind and water erosion, to understand the process and mechanism of wind-water complex erosion comprehensively and objectively.

Key words: wind-water complex erosion, type, characteristic, synergistic effect

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