Seasonal evolution of runoff generation on agricultural land in the Belgian loess belt and implications for muddy flood triggering

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1285-1301

  Evrard, Olivier ^a,b   Vandaele, Karel ^c   Bielders, Charles ^a   van Wesemael, Bas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Fonds pour la formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et l'Agriculture F R I A   (Belgium)

^c Watering van Sint Truiden   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Grassed areas; Muddy floods; Runoff coefficient; Scale effect; Steady infiltration rate

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; RAIN; SILT; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDS; BELGIUM; CULTIVATED SOILS; EUROPEAN; GRASSED AREAS; HEAVY RAINFALL; MUDDY FLOODS; RUNOFF COEFFICIENT; RUNOFF GENERATION; SCALE EFFECT; SEVERE EROSION; SOIL COVERS; SOIL SURFACE CRUSTING; SOIL SURFACES; STEADY INFILTRATION RATE;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; EROSION; FLOODING; INFILTRATION; LOESS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SCALE EFFECT; SOIL COVER;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 48549088369     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1613     Document Type: Article

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