Predicting the effect of tilling practices on wind erosion activity: Application of the Wind Erosion Prediction System in a sand drift area in The Netherlands

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1864-1874

  Riksen, Michel J P M ^a   Visser, Saskia M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drift sand; Model; The Netherlands; Tillage; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; BEACHES; CLIMATOLOGY; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; EROSION; EXCAVATION; EXCAVATORS; LANDFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; MINING MACHINERY; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AEOLIAN PROCESSES; AND MODELS; BEACH SAND CLEANERS; DISC HARROWS; DRIFT SAND; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; INCOMING SEDIMENTS; MASS TRANSPORTS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; RANDOM ROUGHNESSES; ROTARY CULTIVATORS; SAND DRIFTS; SEDIMENT FLUXES; SPACE AND TIMES; SURFACE LAYERS; THE NETHERLANDS; TILLAGE; WIND EROSION;

SOIL MECHANICS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EOLIAN PROCESS; MASS TRANSPORT; MOISTURE CONTENT; SIMULATION; TILLAGE; WIND EROSION;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57749176636     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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