Assessing soil surface roughness decay during simulated rainfall by multifractal analysis

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 457-468

  Vidal Vazquez E ^a   Garcia Moreno R ^b   Miranda, J G V ^c   Diaz M C ^b   Saa Requejo A ^b   Paz Ferreiro, J ^a   Tarquis, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; LASER; RAINFALL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 46249101880     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-15-457-2008     Document Type: Article

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