Climatic control of sediment yield in dry lands following climate and land cover change

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Collins, D B G ^a,b   Bras, R L ^a,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; DROPS; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); EROSION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; VEGETATION;

ANNUAL RAINFALLS; ARID LANDSCAPES; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; LAND COVERS; SECONDARY PEAKS; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SEMIARID CLIMATES; VEGETATION COVERS;

SEDIMENTATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EROSION; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD;

EID: 57149090734     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006474     Document Type: Article

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