Effects of watershed representation on runoff and sediment yield modeling

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 311-319

  Lopes, Vicente L ^a   Evan Canfield, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion, sediment transport; Scale effects; Semiarid watersheds; Storm runoff; Watershed modeling; Watershed representation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUNOFF;

CHANNEL REPRESENTATION; HILLSLOPES; SEDIMENT YIELD MODELS; SEMIARID RANGELAND WATERSHEDS;

WATERSHEDS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; WATERSHED;

EID: 4544349544     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2004.tb01031.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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