Testing a cellular modelling approach to simulating late-Holocene sediment and water transfer from catchment to lake in the French Alps since 1826

Holocene

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 785-798

  Welsh, K E ^a   Dearing, J A ^b   Chiverrell, R C ^a   Coulthard, T J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAESAR; Cellular modelling; Climate change; Hydrogeomorphology; Lake sediments; Land use; Reduced complexity model; Sediment discharge

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASIN ANALYSIS; CATCHMENT; CHRONOLOGY; COMPLEXITY; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DISCHARGE; FIELD SURVEY; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FOREST COVER; GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349218935     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609105303     Document Type: Article

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