Temporal variability in the relationships between precipitation, discharge and suspended sediment concentration in a small Mediterranean mountain catchment

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-150

  Lana Renault, Noemi ^a   Regues D ^a   Marti Bono C ^a   Begueria S ^a   Latron, J ^a   Nadal, E ^a   Serrano, P ^a   Garcia Ruiz J M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antecedent humidity; Central Spanish Pyrenees; Experimental catchment; Floods; Sediment sources; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DILUTION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEDIMENTS;

ANTECEDENT MOISTURE CONDITIONS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION;

CATCHMENTS;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; DISCHARGE; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PEAK FLOW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER FLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34248512812     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2007.003     Document Type: Article

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