Paper Harvest Report
Date range: September 27, 2026
1 top-tier paper selected out of 3 total publications
Today’s Highlights
Today’s harvest yields one paper from Geophysical Research Letters applying the AeoLiS coastal aeolian transport model to a dryland river corridor. Kelley et al. demonstrate that the model accurately reproduces spatial and temporal patterns of sediment movement and aeolian dune formation at a Grand Canyon sandbar, validating cross-domain application of coastal tools to fluvial-aeolian systems. The work opens promising directions for coupled fluvial-aeolian modeling to support river management and ecosystem conservation in dryland environments.
Table of Contents
Top-Tier Journal Papers
First Application of a Coastal‐Dune Model (AeoLiS) to Simulate Fluvial‐Aeolian Morphodynamics
Authors: M. M. Kelley, J. B. Sankey, N. Cohn, A. East, A. Kasprak, H. Fairley et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters · DOI: 10.1029/2025gl120694
Matched topics: river, coastal
Quantifying aeolian processes is important to decision‐making in river management and for optimizing strategies for ecosystem conservation, natural resource management, and recreation. We applied the AeoLiS aeolian transport model, originally developed for coastal environments, to a dryland river corridor to evaluate its ability to simulate sediment dynamics in a fluvial‐aeolian system. The model reproduced spatial and temporal patterns of geomorphic change at a Grand Canyon sandbar, including aeolian dune formation, observed in field data. The model effectively captured trends in observed sediment movement in the spring and summer months. Thus, despite assuming a single grain‐size, static vegetation, and not directly accounting for variable sediment supply from fluvial sources, the model performs well at capturing aeolian processes in a complex fluvial‐aeolian system. AeoLiS demonstrates strong potential for dryland river applications and management, due to its flexibility and compatibility with coupled modeling frameworks.
Statistics
| Metric | Count |
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| Journals searched | 11 |
| Total papers fetched | 3 |
| Passed deterministic filter | 2 |
| After LLM relevance filtering | 1 |
| Rejected (not relevant) | 1 |
| AI for Science items picked | 0 |
Papers by journal
| Journal | Papers |
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| Geophysical Research Letters | 1 |
Filtering Criteria
Topics: hydrology, hydrologic model, river, runoff, streamflow, reservoir, water management, flood, drought, seasonal, land surface model, climate change, hydropower, surface water, irrigation, earth system model, estuary, coastal, freshwater discharge, river plume, ocean biogeochemistry, marine heatwave, paleohydrology, paleoclimate, Quaternary, Holocene, Pleistocene, fluvial geomorphology, river terrace, loess, drainage network, river capture, landscape evolution, luminescence dating
Fields: engineering, environmental science, computer science, geology, geography