Estimation of soil erosion and sediment yield during individual rainstorms at catchment scale

Water Resources Management

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1447-1465

  Wang, Guoqiang ^a   Hapuarachchi, Prasantha ^b   Ishidaira, Hiroshi ^a   Kiem, Anthony S ^c   Takeuchi, Kuniyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Public Works Research Institute   (Japan)

^c SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

Author keywords

BTOPMC; Event; Infiltration; Lushi basin; USLE

Indexed keywords

BTOPMC; CATCHMENT SCALE; DISCRETE CELLS; EROSION MODELS; EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; LUSHI BASIN; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; RIVER DISCHARGES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT CAPACITIES; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SINGLE EVENTS; SLOPE LENGTHS; SOIL ERODIBILITY; SOIL EROSIONS; SOIL MANAGEMENTS; SUB-BASINS; SURFACE EROSIONS; TOPMODEL; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATIONS; USLE; YELLOW RIVER BASINS;

AGRONOMY; CATCHMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HYDRAULIC MODELS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEEPAGE; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THUNDERSTORMS;

EROSION;

CATCHMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERODIBILITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINSTORM; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENAN; LUSHI BASIN; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 67349095320     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-008-9335-8     Document Type: Article

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