Modeling catchment evolution: From decoding geomorphic processes signatures toward predicting impacts of climate change

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1125-1150

  Istanbulluoglu, Erkan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT YIELD; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 66149110416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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