Abnormal monsoon years and their control on erosion and sediment flux in the high, arid northwest Himalaya

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 231, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 131-146

  Bookhagen, Bodo ^a   Thiede, Rasmus C ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Debris flows; Himalayas; Landscape evolution; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL MONSOON YEARS (AMY); HILLSLOPES; SEDIMENT FLUX; TOPOGRAPHY;

BELT CONVEYORS; EROSION; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; RAIN; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; EROSION; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; WORLD;

EID: 13844308991     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.11.014     Document Type: Article

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