Modelling water flow and sediment processes in a small gully system on the Loess Plateau in China

Catena

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 117-130

  Stolte, J ^a   Liu, B ^b   Ritsema, C J ^a   Van Den Elsen, H G M ^a   Hessel, R ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Erosion modeling; Gully; Loess Plateau; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GULLY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0346127472     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0341-8162(03)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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