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Overview

Xunming Wang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans several fields including Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broad areas, their work particularly focuses on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Mechanical Engineering, Soil Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Wang has contributed to various journals and publication venues, notably:

  • CATENA
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Energy
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wang include:

  • Diwen Cai
  • Fa Liu
  • Danfeng Li
  • Xin Geng
  • Fubao Sun

Significant recent publications by Wang include:

  • "Unintended consequences of combating desertification in China," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future," 2022, Earth-Science Reviews

Additional notable publications relevant to Wang's research environment or extended research community include:

  • "Contributions of ecological programs to vegetation restoration in arid and semiarid China," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "An energy consumption improvement method for centrifugal pump based on bionic optimization of blade trailing edge," 2022, Energy
  • "Simulation and 4E analysis of a novel trigeneration process using a gas turbine cycle combined with a geothermal-driven multi-waste heat recovery method," 2023, Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Best Publications

  • Modern dust storms in China: an overview.

    Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Jiawu Zhang;Lichao Liu

  • Desertification in China: An assessment

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Fahu Chen;Eerdun Hasi;Jinchang Li

  • The relative role of climatic and human factors in desertification in semiarid China

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Zhibao Dong

  • The flux profile of a blowing sand cloud: a wind tunnel investigation

    Zhibao Dong;Xiaoping Liu;Hongtao Wang;Aiguo Zhao

  • Geomorphology of the megadunes in the Badain Jaran Desert

    Zhibao Dong;Tao Wang;Xunming Wang

  • Chinese deserts and sand fields in Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Optimum

    HuaYu Lu;ShuangWen Yi;ZhiWei Xu;YaLi Zhou

  • The blown sand flux over a sandy surface: a wind tunnel investigation on the fetch effect

    Zhibao Dong;Hongtao Wang;Xiaoping Liu;Xunming Wang

  • Aeolian sand transport: a wind tunnel model

    Zhibao Dong;Xiaoping Liu;Hongtao Wang;Xunming Wang

  • Wind energy environments and dunefield activity in the Chinese deserts

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Ping Yan;Jiawu Zhang

  • Control of dust emissions by geomorphic conditions, wind environments and land use in northern China: An examination based on dust storm frequency from 1960 to 2003

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Zijiang Zhou;Zhibao Dong

  • Dust sources in arid and semiarid China and southern Mongolia: Impacts of geomorphological setting and surface materials

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Dunsheng Xia;Tao Wang;Xian Xue

  • Grain size characteristics of dune sands in the central Taklimakan Sand Sea

    Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Jiawu Zhang;Jianjun Qu

  • Aerodynamic roughness of gravel surfaces

    Zhibao Dong;Xiaoping Liu;Xunming Wang

  • Controlling blown sand along the highway crossing the Taklimakan Desert

    Zhibao Dong;Guangting Chen;Xingdong He;Zhiwen Han

  • Responses of dune activity and desertification in China to global warming in the twenty-first century.

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Yi Yang;Zhibao Dong;Caixia Zhang

  • Geomorphology of sand dunes in the Northeast Taklimakan Desert

    Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Jiawu Zhang;Guangting Chen

  • Contributions of ecological programs to vegetation restoration in arid and semiarid China

    Diwen Cai;Quansheng Ge;Xunming Wang;Baoli Liu

  • A wind tunnel investigation of the influences of fetch length on the flux profile of a sand cloud blowing over a gravel surface

    Zhibao Dong;Hongtao Wang;Xiaoping Liu;Xunming Wang

  • Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future

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  • Monitoring sand dune advance in the Taklimakan Desert

    Zhibao Dong;Xunming Wang;Guangting Chen

  • Late Quaternary environmental changes and organic carbon density in the Hunshandake Sandy Land, eastern Inner Mongolia, China

    X. Yang;B. Zhu;X. Wang;C. Li

  • Surface sample collection and dust source analysis in northwestern China

    Xunming Wang;Xunming Wang;Zhibao Dong;Ping Yan;Zuotao Yang

  • Experimental investigation of the velocity of a sand cloud blowing over a sandy surface

    Zhibao Dong;Xiaoping Liu;Xunming Wang;Fang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhibao Dong
Zhibao Dong Shaanxi Normal University
Xiaoping Liu
Xiaoping Liu Sun Yat-sen University
Huizheng Che
Huizheng Che China Meteorological Administration
Mingrui Qiang
Mingrui Qiang South China Normal University
Wenbin Liu
Wenbin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jimin Sun
Jimin Sun Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Huayu Lu
Huayu Lu Nanjing University
Eduardo Zorita
Eduardo Zorita Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Andrew Goudie
Andrew Goudie University of Oxford

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