urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:laboratory.sders-china 1.0 1.11.0.0 Product_Context 2019-02-12 1.0 Initial creation of the context product. urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:sders-china.shapotou_wt facility_to_instrument 10.1016/S0169-555X(02)00170-8 Dong, Z., X. Lu, H. Wang, A. Zhao, and X. Wang, (2003), The flux profile of a blowing sand cloud: a wind tunnel investigation, Geomorphology, 49(2-3): 219-230. Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station, Institute od Desert Research, Chinese Academy Laboratory Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was founded in 1955, located in Zhongwei City of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regions of The People’s Republic of China, at the southeastern edge of the Tengger Desert. It was ratified as the opening research station of CAS in 1990. It became a member of the Chinese Ecological System Research Network (CERN) in 1992, as the National Key Field Scientific Observation Station by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China in 2000. SDERS has an area of 103.36 ha and was set up as a study of physical and biological processes in an arid desert; desertification control and restoration ecology.