Suspended sediment load, bed load, and dissolved load yields from a semiarid drainage basin: A 15-year study

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Alexandrov, Yulia ^a   Cohen, Hai ^a   Laronne, Jonathan B ^a,b   Reid, Ian ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; BED LOAD; DISSOLVED LOAD; DRAINAGE BASIN; DRYLAND; LOAD COMPONENTS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RUNOFF COEFFICIENTS; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SOLUTE YIELD; SUSPENDED LOADS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOADS;

DISSOLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS;

CATCHMENTS;

ANNUAL REVIEW; BEDLOAD; CATCHMENT; DISSOLVED LOAD; DRAINAGE BASIN; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; RUNOFF; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEMIARID REGION; SUSPENDED LOAD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TEMPORAL RECORD; UPLAND REGION;

EID: 70349770720     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007314     Document Type: Article

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