Comparison between rainfall simulator erosion and observed reservoir sedimentation in an erosion-sensitive semiarid catchment

Catena

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-16

  Hamed, Yasser ^a   Albergel, Jean ^b   Pépin, Yannick ^b   Asseline, Jean ^b   Nasri, Slah ^c   Zante, Patrick ^b   Berndtsson, Ronny ^a   El Niazy, Mohamed ^d   Balah, Mohamed ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Tunis   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^d AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Erosion; Rainfall simulator; Siltation; Soil loss

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFALL; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENTATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION;

TUNISIA;

EID: 0037164579     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(02)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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