Flow-retarding effects of vegetation and geotextiles on soil detachment during concentrated flow

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2427-2437

  Knapen, A ^a   Smets, Toon ^a   Poesen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Effective flow shear stress; Laboratory experiments; Shear stress partitioning; Surface cover; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; CONCENTRATED FLOW; CROP RESIDUE; EFFECTIVE FLOW SHEAR STRESS; EROSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIELD CONDITIONS; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW HYDRAULICS; FLOW SHEAR STRESS; FLOW TURBULENCE; HIGH FLOW; HYDRAULIC RADIUS; INTERRILL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OVERLAND FLOW; RETARDING EFFECT; RIVER HYDRAULICS; ROCK FRAGMENTS; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; RUNOFF DATA; SOIL DETACHMENT; SOIL SURFACES; SURFACE COVER;

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; CROPS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOTEXTILES; HYDRAULICS; RUNOFF; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; VEGETATION;

SOILS;

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; EFFECTIVE STRESS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOTEXTILE; OVERLAND FLOW; PARTITIONING; RIVER CHANNEL; RUNOFF; SHEAR STRESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; VEGETATION;

EID: 68749095374     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7360     Document Type: Article

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