Estimating parameters of the channel width-flow discharge relation using rill and gully channel junction data

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2023-2030

  Pilar Salvador Sanchis, M ^a   Torri, Dino ^a   Borselli, Lorenzo ^a   Bryan, Rorke ^b   Poesen, Jean ^c   Yañez, Marta S ^a   Cremer, Cati ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Channel width; Gully; Hydraulic geometry; Peak runoff discharge; Rill

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL BED; CHANNEL GEOMETRY; CHANNEL JUNCTIONS; CHANNEL WIDTHS; ESTIMATING PARAMETERS; FLOW DISCHARGES; HYDRAULIC GEOMETRY; MOUNTAIN STREAMS; PARAMETERIZED; PEAK DISCHARGE; PRACTICAL USE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF SIMULATIONS; ROCK FRAGMENTS; RUNOFF DISCHARGE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SIMULATORS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BADLANDS; CHANNEL FLOW; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOMETRY; GULLY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; PEAK DISCHARGE; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RILL; RUNOFF; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 71449108226     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1887     Document Type: Article

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