Empirical catchment-wide rainfall erosivity models for two rivers in the humid tropics of Australia

Australian Geographer

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 115-132

  Yu, Bofu ^a   Neil, David T ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Catchment scale; Humid tropics; Rainfall erosivity; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

HUMID TROPICS; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034052589     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049180093565     Document Type: Article

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