Changes of erosive rainfall for El Niño and La Niña years in the northern Andean highlands of Peru

Climatic Change

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 343-356

  Romero, Consuelo C ^a,b   Baigorria, Guillermo A ^b   Stroosnijder, Leo ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

EL NIÑO AND SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); RAIN EVENTS; WEATHER STATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EROSIVITY; LA NINA; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; WATERSHED;

ANDES; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 36248987874     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9301-0     Document Type: Article

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