Calibrating a rainfall erosivity assessment model at regional scale in Mediterranean area

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1597-1606

  Grauso, Sergio ^a   Diodato, Nazzareno ^b   Verrubbi, Vladimiro ^a  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mediterranean; Rainfall erosivity; Regression models; RUSLE; Sicily

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT MODELS; EROSIVITY; FORECASTING PURPOSE; GEOSTATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; MODEL RELIABILITY; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL EROSIVITY; RAINFALL VARIABLE; REGIONAL SCALE; REGRESSION MODEL; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION RISK; SOIL LOSS; SOIL-EROSION MODEL; SOUTHERN ITALY; STANDARD ERRORS; TIME-SCALES; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING; GEOLOGIC MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; EROSIVITY; GEOSTATISTICS; INTERPOLATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; TIME SERIES; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 77953644836     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0294-z     Document Type: Article

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