Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6967, 2003, Pages 652-655

  Burbank, D W ^a   Blythe, A E ^b   Putkonen, J ^c   Pratt Sitaula, B ^a   Gabet, E ^a   Oskin, M ^a   Barros, A ^d   Ojha, T P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Himalayan Experience ^*  (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

GEOLOGY;

RAIN;

EROSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; GRAVITY; HYPOTHESIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEPAL; PARAMETER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; STREAM (RIVER); TECHNIQUE; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 0347815506     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02187     Document Type: Article

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