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barchan [GB ˈbɑːk(ə)n, Am bɑrˈkɑn] SUBST

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Earlier models predicted that crescent-shaped sand dunes called barchan dunes should grow to at least 500 meters long -- but many are only 100 meters.

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Technically, they're called barchan dunes.

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In the sheltered troughs between highly developed seif dunes barchans may be formed because the wind is unidirectional.

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Barchan dunes are produced by strong winds blowing across a level surface, and are crescent-shaped with the concave side away from the wind.

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If the prevailing wind then becomes dominant for a lengthy period of time the dune will revert to its barchan form, with one exaggerated wing.

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Apart from this nonlinearity, barchans behave rather like solitary waves.

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They form through the lateral coalition of individual barchans and indicate increasing sand supply.

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When wind whistles across the dunes, it pushes that sand into huge, crescent-shaped structures known as barchans.

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With the buildings of the set as fixed geographic points, scientists were able to use satellite imagery to track the movement of the barchan over the years.

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The orientation of the barchan dunes suggest that they were generated by northeasterly winds.

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