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The environmental wind tunnel is a useful tool for simulating atmospheric winds near the Earth’s surface and their effects. It has been used to determine surface pressure on, and flow patterns around buildings and other boundary layer obstructions. Several wind tunnels have been constructed for modeling saltation phenomena, i.e., blowing sand and snow at small scale.
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Iversen, J.D. (1986). Aeolian Processes in the Environmental Wind Tunnel and in the Atmosphere. In: El-Baz, F., Hassan, M.H.A. (eds) Physics of desertification. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4388-9_21
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