Hydrological processes in a small arid catchment: Scale effects of rainfall and slope length

Geomorphology

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 155-169

  Yair, Aaron ^a   Raz Yassif, Naama ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contributing area; Erosion and deposition processes; Geological time scale; Hillslope hydrology; Hillslope scale; Rainfall scales

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CATCHMENT; EROSION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SCALE EFFECT; SLOPE DYNAMICS; WATERSHED;

EID: 2942527035     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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