Use of caesium-137 data to evaluate SHETRAN simulated long-term erosion patterns in arable lands

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1795-1809

  Banis, Y Norouzi ^a   Bathurst, J C ^b   Walling, D E ^c  

^a SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caesium 137; Erosion model; Model validation; Parameter uncertainty; SHETRAN; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS; WIND EFFECTS;

EROSION RATES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

HYDROLOGY;

ARABLE LAND; CESIUM ISOTOPE; EROSION RATE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 3242671750     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1447     Document Type: Article

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