Evaluation of a dynamic multi-class sediment transport model in a catchment under soil-conservation agriculture

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1639-1660

  Fiener, Peter ^a   Govers, Gerard ^b   Van Oost, Kristof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Erosion model; Multi class sediment transport; Sediment delivery; Sediment deposition; Soil conservation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; CATCHMENTS; CLAY MINERALS; EROSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND USES; AGRICULTURAL LANDS; AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS; CONSERVATION MEASURES; CONTROL MEASURES; EROSION AND DEPOSITIONS; EROSION MODEL; MODEL SEDIMENTS; MULTI-CLASS SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; NUTRIENT TRANSPORTS; RILL EROSIONS; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODELS; SOIL EROSIONS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SURFACE RUNOFFS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CATCHMENT; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LAND USE; MODELING; RILL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; WATERSHED;

EID: 57749180833     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1634     Document Type: Article

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