Controlling Runoff and Erosion in Sloping Land with Polyacrylamide under a Rainfall Simulator

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 469-474

  Sepaskhah, A R ^a   Bazrafshan Jahromi, A R ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRIGATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOILS;

POLYACRYLAMIDE; RAINFALL SIMULATOR; SPRINKLER IRRIGATION;

EROSION;

IRRIGATION; RAIN; SOIL;

EID: 33645873896     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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