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Overview

Giles F.S. Wiggs is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Earth-Surface Processes and Atmospheric Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's research portfolio includes main topical areas such as Aeolian processes and effects, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Geological formations and processes, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Responsible agriculture must adapt to the wetland character of mid-latitude peatlands (2022), published in Global Change Biology
  • Complementary classifications of aeolian dunes based on morphology, dynamics, and fluid mechanics (2024), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Holocene dynamics of the southern westerly winds over the Indian Ocean inferred from a peat dust deposition record (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Salt Polygons and Porous Media Convection (2023), published in Physical Review X
  • Plumes and blooms - Locally-sourced Fe-rich aeolian mineral dust drives phytoplankton growth off southwest Africa (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment

They have collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors throughout their career, including Joanna M. Nield, Philippe Claudin, Matthew Baddock, Pauline Delorme, and C. Narteau.

Best Publications

  • Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming

    David S. G. Thomas;Melanie Knight;Giles F. S. Wiggs

  • Dune mobility and vegetation cover in the Southwest Kalahari desert

    Giles F. S. Wiggs;David S. G. Thomas;Joanna E. Bullard;Ian Livingstone

  • The dynamic effects of moisture on the entrainment and transport of sand by wind

    G.F.S Wiggs;A.J Baird;R.J Atherton

  • Geomorphology of desert sand dunes: A review of recent progress

    Ian Livingstone;Giles F.S. Wiggs;Corinne M. Weaver

  • The role of streamline curvature in sand dune dynamics: evidence from field and wind tunnel measurements

    Giles F.S. Wiggs;Ian Livingstone;Andrew Warren

  • Air flow and sand transport over sand-dunes

    W. S. Weng;J. C. R. Hunt;D. J. Carruthers;A. Warren

  • Numerical modelling of flow structures over idealized transverse aeolian dunes of varying geometry

    Daniel R. Parsons;Ian J. Walker;Giles F.S. Wiggs

  • The dynamics and characteristics of aeolian dust in dryland Central Asia: possible impacts on human exposure and respiratory health in the Aral Sea basin

    Giles F S Wiggs;Sarah L O'hara;Johannah Wegerdt;Joost Van Der Meer

  • Desert dune processes and dynamics

    Giles F.S. Wiggs

  • Aeolian sand strip mobility and protodune development on a drying beach: examining surface moisture and surface roughness patterns measured by terrestrial laser scanning

    Joanna M. Nield;Giles F.S. Wiggs;Robert S. Squirrell

  • Aeolian system responses to global change: challenges of scale, process and temporal integration

    David S. G. Thomas;Giles F. S. Wiggs

  • Dunefield Activity and Interactions with Climatic Variability in the Southwest Kalahari Desert

    J. E. Bullard;D. S. G. Thomas;I. Livingstone;G. S. F. Wiggs

  • Numerical modelling of airflow over an idealised transverse dune

    Daniel R. Parsons;Giles F.S. Wiggs;Ian J. Walker;Robert I. Ferguson

  • Airflow and roughness characteristics over partially vegetated linear dunes in the southwest Kalahari Desert

    Giles F. S. Wiggs;Ian Livingstone;David S. G. Thomas;Joanna E. Bullard

  • Field measurements of mean and turbulent airflow over a barchan sand dune

    Corinne M. Weaver;Giles F.S. Wiggs

  • Sand residence times of one million years in the Namib Sand Sea from cosmogenic nuclides

    Pieter Vermeesch;C.R. Fenton;F. Kober;G.F.S. Wiggs

  • Turbulent flow structures and aeolian sediment transport over a barchan sand dune

    G. F. S. Wiggs;C. M. Weaver

  • Thresholds of aeolian sand transport: establishing suitable values

    G.f.S. Wiggs;R.J. Atherton;A.J. Baird

  • Analysis of linear sand dune morphological variability, southwestern Kalahari desert

    J.E. Bullard;D.S.G. Thomas;I. Livingstone;G.F.S. Wiggs

  • Characterizing turbulent wind flow around dryland vegetation

    Jerome R. Mayaud;Giles F.S. Wiggs;Richard M. Bailey

  • Desertification, exploding the myth

    Giles Wiggs

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Washington
Richard Washington University of Oxford
Robert G. Bryant
Robert G. Bryant University of Sheffield
Ian Livingstone
Ian Livingstone University of Northampton
Joanna E. Bullard
Joanna E. Bullard Loughborough University
Richard M. Bailey
Richard M. Bailey University of Oxford
Ian P. Castro
Ian P. Castro University of Southampton
Richard Hubbard
Richard Hubbard University of Nottingham
Charlie S. Bristow
Charlie S. Bristow Birkbeck, University of London
Philippe Claudin
Philippe Claudin Université Paris Cité
Kevin White
Kevin White University of Reading

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