• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.97 no.1
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• pp.95-101
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• 2008

The wind speed reduction capability of forest belt of Caragana Korshinskili Kom in Yanchi, Ningxia province in China is as follows. 1. At the height of 0.5 m, the windbreak effect is 3-Strip (30.22%) > 2-Strip (26.53%) > 1-Strip (16.28%) from 1H (H = Tree Height) to 5H, and the windbreak effect is 2-Strip (16.11%) > 3-Strip (12.79%) > 1-Strip (9.82%) for greater than 7H. Further analysis of 2-Strip and 3-Strip revealed that the wind reduction effect of 2-Strip spread to 44H and 3-Strip spread to 27H. This result implies that 3-Strip is most effective for short distances and 2-Strip is most effective for long distances. 2. At the height of 1.0m, the wind speed was relatively constant and the reduction rate of wind speed had a minimal variation, with the reduction rate of 1-Strip (8.04%), 2-Strip (8.23%), and 3-Strip (7.43%). 3. The sandbreak effect is 2-Strip (55.28%) > 3-Strip (37.13%) > 1-Strip (20.87%). Especially, The rate of sandbreak of 1H (86.06%) of 2-Strip is most effective value in whole data.