Quantifying sediment storage in a high alpine valley (Turtmanntal, Switzerland)

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1726-1742

  Otto, Jan Christoph ^a   Schrott, Lothar ^a   Jaboyedoff, Michel ^b   Dikau, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

GIS modeling; Landform analysis; Sediment budget; Sediment cascade; Sediment storage

Indexed keywords

GIS MODELING; LANDFORM ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT CASCADE; SEDIMENT STORAGE;

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SURVEYING;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CATCHMENT; DENUDATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE BASIN; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GIS; MORAINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT THICKNESS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70350413716     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1856     Document Type: Article

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