A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 2. Sensitivity and evaluation of Mahleran

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 962-984

  Wainwright, John ^a   Parsons, Anthony J ^a   Müller, Eva N ^b   Brazier, Richard E ^c   Powell, Mark D ^d   Fenti, Bantigegne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e Queensland Department of Natural Resources Mines and Energy ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Erosion; Scaling; Sediment transport; Soil erosion model; Validation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; RAIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

HILLSLOPE GRADIENT; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SOIL-EROSION MODEL;

EROSION;

EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; RAIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EROSION RATE; HILLSLOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION;

EID: 44449169394     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1623     Document Type: Article

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