Effects of fire-precipitation timing and regime on post-fire sediment delivery in Pacific Northwest forests

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lanini, Jordan S ^a   Clark, Elizabeth A ^a   Lettenmaier, Dennis P ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC MODELS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATERSHEDS;

BEFORE AND AFTER; COUPLED DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODELS; FIRE SUPPRESSIONS; FORESTED WATERSHEDS; PACIFIC NORTHWESTS; POST FIRES; RIVER BASINS; RUNOFF RESPONSE; SEDIMENT DELIVERIES; SEDIMENT PRODUCTIONS; SNOW MELTS; WASHINGTON;

FIRES;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATERSHED; WILDFIRE;

EID: 62749196162     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034588     Document Type: Article

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