Land Degradation and Dust Storms in Sistan Region, Iran
Dust storms are catastrophic natural disasters that beside other disasters frequently occur in arid and semiarid regions in world. Sustained drought and reduced precipitation in Sistan region, has dried the Hamoun lake and local vegetation, these significantly reduce ground cover and land degradation. These conditions have permitted the dust storms in the Sistan region. Long-term (15 years) data analyzed were obtained from synoptic stations located in the region. The result shows that after drought in the area the dust storms increased gradually. Also the maximum number of dust storm days in the survey has been recorded in 2001. It was 74 days and totally 531 hours.
Sistan Land Degradation dust storms
Abbas Miri Alireza Moghaddamnia Gholam Nabi Roushandel Hormozi
University of Zabol, Department of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, Zab Iranian Organization Engineering Order of Building
国际会议
西安
英文
1145-1148
2010-10-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）