A stochastic approach to modeling the role of rainfall variability in drainage basin evolution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1953-1964

  Tucker, Gregory E ^a   Bras, Rafael L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE BASIN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PARTICLE; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION MODEL; SOIL EROSION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

CLIMATE MODELS; EROSION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; EROSION AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORTS; LANDSCAPE SIMULATION; MEAN RAINFALL AMOUNT; PARTICLE DETACHMENTS; RAINFALL AND RUNOFFS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT CAPACITY;

CATCHMENTS;

EID: 0033844792     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900065     Document Type: Article

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