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Selected Publications (2014)

56 publications listed

• Allen, C.J.T. and Washington, R. (2014) The low level jet dust emission mechanism in the central Sahara: observations from Bordj-Badji Mokhtar during the June 2011 Fennec Intensive Observation Period. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(6): 2990-3015.
• Arizzi, A. and Cultrone, G. (2014) Estudio de cales hidratadas calciticas y dolomiticas: influencia de la microestructura y propiedades reologicas en la calidad de los morteros. In, Alejandre Sánchez, F.J., Flores Alés, V., Blasco López, F.J. and Martín del Rio, J.J. (eds.) La cal. Investigacion, patrimonio y restauración. Universidad de Sevilla Secretariado de Publicaciones. pp. 53-62. ISBN: 978-84-472-1507-2.
• Arizzi, A., Cultrone, G., Brummer, M. and Viles, H. (2014) A chemical, morphological and mineralogical study on the interaction between hemp hurds and aerial and natural hydraulic lime particles: Implications for mortar manufacturing. Construction and Building Materials, 75: 375-384.
• Boardman, J. (2014) Rapid and selective clast weathering on an alluvial fan, eastern Karoo, South Africa. Catena, 126: 37-42.
• Briones, C.C. (2014) Effects of open shelters on limestone decay: The case-study of the Bishop's Palace archaeological site in Witney (England). In, Candelera, R. (ed.) Science, Technology and Cultural Heritage. Taylor and Francis Group, London. pp. 41-46. ISBN: 978-1-138-02744-2.
• Bussi, G. (2014) Implementation of a distributed sediment model in different data availability scenarios. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València.
• Bussi, G., Francés, F., Horel, E., López-Tarazón, J.A. and Batalla, R.J. (2014) Modelling the impact of climate change on sediment yield in a highly erodible Mediterranean catchment. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 14(12): 1921-1937.
• Bussi, G., Francés, F., Montoya, J.J. and Julien, P. (2014) Distributed sediment yield modelling: importance of initial sediment conditions. Environmental Modelling and Software, 58: 58-70.
• Cole, M.J., Bailey, R.M., New, M.G. (2014) Tracking sustainable development with a national barometer for South Africa using a downscaled “safe and just space” framework. PNAS, 111(42): 4399-4408.
• Coombes, M.A. (2014) The rock coast of the British Isles: Weathering and biogenic processes. In, Kennedy, D., Stephenson, W. and L. Naylor (eds.) Rock Coast Geomorphology: A global synthesis. Geological Society of London Special Publications. pp. 57-76. ISBN: 1862396841.
• Cowley, S.J. and Madsen, J.K. (2014) Time and Temporality: Linguistic Distribution in Human Life-games. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 21: 172-185.
• Cultrone, G., Molina, E. and Arizzi, A. (2014) The combined use of petrographic, chemical and physical techniques to define the technological features of Iberian ceramics from the Canto Tortoso area (Granada, Spain). Ceramics International, 40(7): 10803-10816.
• Deppe, L., McGregor, K.F., Tomasetto, F., Briskie, J.V. and Scofield, R.P. (2014) Distribution predictability of foraging activity in breeding Chatham Albatrosses Thalassarche eremita in relation to environmental characteristics. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 498: 287-301.
• Fattahi, M. (2014) Luminescence, earthquake and tectonic activity. In, Rink, W.J. and Thompson, J. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods. Springer. pp. 1-8.
• Fattahi, M., Walker, R.T., Talebian, M., Sloan, R.A. and Rasheedi, A. (2014) Late Quaternary active faulting and landscape evolution in relation to the Gowk Fault in the South Golbaf Basin, SE Iran. Geomorphology, 204: 334-343.
• Formica, A. Farrer, E.C., Ashton, I.W. and Suding, K.N. (2014) Shrub Expansion Over the Past 62 Years in Rocky Mountain Alpine Tundra: Possible Causes and Consequences. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 46(3).
• Gebremichael, M., Bitew, M.M., Hirpa, F.A. and Tesfay, G.A. (2014) Accuracy of satellite rainfall estimates in the Blue Nile Basin: Lowland plain versus highland mountain. Water Resources Research, 50(11): 8775-8790.
• Ghassemi, M., Fattahi, M., Landgraf, A., Ahmadai, M., Ballato, P. and Tabatabaei, S. (2014) Kinematic links between the Eastern Mosha Fault and the North Tehran Fault, Alborz range, northern Iran. Tectonophysics, 622: 81-95.
• Goudie, A. (2014) Desert dust and human health disorders. Environment International, 63: 101-113.
• Hall, J.W., Grey, D., Garrick, D., Fung, F., Brown, C., Dadson, S.J. and Sadoff, C.W. (2014) Water Security: Coping with the curse of freshwater variability. Science, 346(6208): 429-430.
• Hanssen, S.V. and Viles, H. (2014) Can plants keep ruins dry? A quantitative assessment of the effect of soft capping on rainwater flows over ruined walls. Ecological Engineering, 73: 173-179.
• Hirpa, F.A., Gebremichael, M., Hopson, T.M., Wojick, R. and Lee, H. (2014) Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals into a Hydrologic Model for Improving River Discharge. Chapter 19 in, Lakshmi, V. et al. (ed.) Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle. Wiley. 576 pp. ISBN: 978-1-118-87203-1.
• King, C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2014) Monitoring environmental change and degradation in the irrigated oases of the Northern Sahara. Journal of Arid Environments, 103: 36-45.
• Leighton, C.L., Bailey, R.M. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2014) Interpreting and modelling late Quaternary dune accumulation in the southern Arabian Peninsula. Quaternary Science Reviews, 102: 1-13.
• Livingstone, I., Baas, A., Bateman, M.D., Bristow, C., Bryant, R.G., Bullard, J.E., Nield, J.M., Thomas, D.S.G., White, K.H. and Wiggs, G.F.S. (2014) A prospectus for future geomorphological investigation of the Namib Sand Sea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 69(3): 1-6.
• Madsen, J.K. (2014) Approaching Bayesian subjectivity from a temporal perspective. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 21.
• Madsen, J.K. and Cowley, S.J. (2014) Living subjectivity: Time-scales, language and the fluidity of self. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 21: 11-22.
• Makondo, C.C., Chola, K. and Moonga, B. (2014) Climate Change Adaptation and Vulnerability: A Case of Rain Dependent Small-Holder Farmers in Selected Districts in Zambia. American Journal of Climate Change, 3(4): 388-403.
• Mayaud, J.R., Banwell, A.F., Arnold, N.S. and Willis, I.C. (2014) Modeling the response of subglacial drainage at Paakitsoq, West Greenland, to 21st century climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 110(12): 2619-2634.
• Mayaud, J.R., Viles, H.A. and Coombes, M.A. (2014) Exploring the influence of biofilm on short-term expansion and contraction of supratidal rock: an example from the Mediterranean. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 39(10): 1404-1412.
• Middleton, N., Rueff, H., Sternberg, T., Batbuyan, B. and Thomas, D. (2014) Explaining spatial variations in climate hazard impacts in western Mongolia. Landscape Ecology, 30(1): 91-107.
• Migon, P. and Goudie, A. (2014) Sandstone Geomorphology of South-West Jordan, Middle East. Quaestiones Geographicae, 33(3): 123-130.
• Morgan, R.M., Allen, E., King, T., Bull, P.A. (2014) The spatial and temporal distribution of pollen in a room: forensic implications. Science and Justice, 54(1): 49-56.
• Morgan, R.M., Flynn, J., Sena, V. and Bull, P.A. (2014) Experimental forensic studies of the preservation of pollen in vehicle fires. Science and Justice, 54(2): 141-145.
• Nikolaus, K., Greenwood, P., Kuhn, B., Boardman, J., Foster, I. and Meadows, M. (2014) The Great Karoo region of South Africa: A carbon source or sink? EGU General Assembly 2014, held 27 April - 2 May, 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
• Orr, S. (2014) Land-use regression modelling of highway ultrafine particle number concentrations. Canadian Young Scientist Journal, 1: 1-10.
• Pandey, S.C., Pollard, A.M., Viles, H.A. and Tellam, J.H. (2014) Influence of ion exchange processes on salt transport and distribution in historic sandstone buildings. Applied Geochemistry, 48: 176-183.
• Pereira, L.M., Cuneo, C.N. and Twine, W.C. (2014) Food and cash: understanding the role of the retail sector in rural food security in South Africa. Food Security, 6(3): 339-357.
• Rueff, H. (2014) Book Review: High-Altitude Rangelands and Their Interfaces in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Mountain Research and Development, 34(3): 305-306.
• Rueff, H. and Rahim, I. (2014) Book review: Making a Living in Uncertainty: Agro-Pastoral Livelihoods and Institutional Transformations in Post-Socialist Rural Kyrgyzstan. Nomadic Peoples, 18: 149-151.
• Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Stoffel, M., Bussi, G., Francés, F. and Brethaut, C. (2014) Climate change impacts on discharges of the Rhone River in Lyon by the end of the twenty-first century: model results and implications. Regional Environmental Change, 15(3): 505-515.
• Smith, D.E. (2014) Sea Level Change. In, Catt, J.A. and Candy, I. (eds.) The History of the Quaternary Research Association. Quaternary Research Association. pp. 301-309.
• Staurset, S. and Coulson, S. (2014) Sub-surface movement of stone artefacts at White Paintings Shelter, Tsodilo Hills, Botswana: Implications for the Middle Stone Age chronology of central southern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 75: 153-165.
• Sternberg, T. (2014) Drought and extreme climate stress on human-environment systems in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. In, Braimoh, A.K. and Huag, H.Q. (eds.) Vulnerability of Land Systems in Asia. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-1-118-85495-2.
• Sternberg, T. (2014) Transboundary hazard risk: the Gobi Desert paradigm. Natural Hazards, 72(2): 533-548.
• Sternberg, T. and Batbuyan, B. (2014) Integrating the Hyogo Framework into Mongolia's disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy and management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 5: 1-9.
• Stone, A.E.C. (2014) Last Glacial Maximum conditions in southern Africa. Are we any closer to understanding the climate of this time period? Progress in Physical Geography, 38(5): 519-542.
• Stone, A.E.C. and Edmunds, W.M. (2014) Naturally-high nitrate in unsaturated zone sand dunes above the Stampriet Basin, Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments, 105: 41-51.
• Thiemann, L. and Wilhelm, K. (2014) Zu den Zuschlägen in den oberen Putzlagen antiker römischer Wandmalerei. In, Emmerling, E. (ed.) In Firmitas et splendor: Vitruv und die Techniken des Wanddekors. Siegl, Munich. pp. 181-192.
• Thiemann, L., Knechtel, M., Elsasser, C., Krautenbacher, B., Wilhelm, K. and Kilian, R. (2014) Zur Glättung antiker römischer Putze und Rekonstruktion. Workshop zur Experimentellen Archäologie. In, Emmerling, E. (ed.) Firmitas et splendor: Vitruv und die Techniken des Wanddekors. Siegl, Munich. pp. 201-224.
• Tovar, C., Breman, E., Brncic, T., Harris, D.J., Bailey, R. and Willis, K.J. (2014) Influence of 1100 years of burning on the central African rainforest. Ecography, 37(11): 1139-1148.
• ur-Rahim, I., Maselli, D., Rueff, H. and Bonfoh, B. (2014) Market Access and Herders’ Strategies to Pass through Lean Winter Periods in Post-soviet Kyrgyzstan. APCBEE Procedia, 8(2014): 323-328.
• Viles, H.A. (2014) Solar System: Cracking up on asteroids. Nature, 508: 190-191.
• Wilhelm, K. (2014) Glanz und Glätte der römischen Wandmalerei - Beispiel der Casa di Obellio Firmo. In, Emmerling, E. (ed.) Firmitas et splendor: Vitruv und die Techniken des Wanddekors. . pp. 193-200.
• Winchester, V., Passmore, D.G., Harrison, S., Rae, A., Severskiy, I. and Pimankina, N.V. (2014) Dendrogeomorphological and Sedimentological Analysis of Debris Flow Hazards in the Northern Zailiiskiy Alatau, Tien Shan Mountains, Kazakhstan. 7. in, Braimoh, A.K. and Huang, H. (eds.) Vulnerability of Land Systems in Asia. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 91-116. ISBN: 978-1-118-85495-2.
• Yu, H. (2014) Community-Based Water Governance under Integrated , Water Resources Management Reform in Contemporary , Rural China. Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, 3(2).