Predicting sediment transport by interrill overland flow on rough surfaces

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1087-1099

  Abrahams, Athol D ^a   Li, Gary ^b   Krishnan, Chitra ^c   Atkinson, Joseph F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^d the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Hillslopes; Interrill flow; Overland flow; Sediment transport; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; HILLSLOPE; INTERRILL EROSION; MODELING; OVERLAND FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0032455772     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199812)23:12<1087::AID-ESP934>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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