A probabilistic approach for predicting rainfall soil erosion losses in semiarid areas

Catena

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 403-420

  Mannaerts, C M ^a   Gabriels, D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Fund for Scientific Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Probability distributions; Semiarid; Soil erosion; Volcanic soils

Indexed keywords

PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION;

EID: 0034255750     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(00)00089-8     Document Type: Article

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