Validation of WEQ, RWEQ and WEPS wind erosion for different arable land management systems in the Argentinean Pampas

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1839-1850

  Buschiazzo, Daniel E ^a,b,c   Zobeck, Ted M ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Agronomia   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion prediction models; Semiarid regions; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; ARID REGIONS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PINCH EFFECT; ROTATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; STORMS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

ARABLE LANDS; ARGENTINA; BARE SOILS; CLIMATIC DATUMS; EROSION PREDICTION MODELS; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; NO TILLS; PREDICTION MODELS; ROTATION PERIODS; SEMI-ARID; SEMIARID REGIONS; SOIL DEGRADATION PROCESSES; SOIL EROSIONS; STORM EVENTS; VISUAL FIELDS; WIND EROSION;

EROSION;

ARABLE LAND; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; LAND MANAGEMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL EROSION; TILLAGE; WIND EROSION;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 57749168339     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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