Updating soil surface conditions during wind erosion events using the Wind Erosion Prediction System (WEPS)

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-137

  Hagen, Lawrence J ^a  

^a GRAIN MARKETING AND PRODUCTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Model; Soil; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

EROSIVE WINDS; SOIL SURFACE; WIND EROSION; WIND EROSION PREDICTION SYSTEM (WEPS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EFFECTS;

SOILS;

MODELING; PREDICTION; ROUGHNESS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL SURFACE; STORM; WIND EROSION;

EID: 41749095640     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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