A physical model for the action of raindrop erosion on soil microtopography

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1092-1103

  Planchon, Olivier ^a   Mouche, Emmanuel ^b  

^a UMR LISAH   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY COEFFICIENTS; BARE SOILS; DETACHMENT RATE; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION-TYPE EQUATIONS; EROSION CONTROL; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PREDICTION; NONUNIFORM; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; RAINDROP IMPACT; SEMIARID AREA; SLOPING TERRAINS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL SURFACES; SOURCE TERMS; SURFACE FEATURE; THREE PARAMETERS;

DROPS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EROSION CONTROL; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; RAINDROP; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TERRAIN;

EID: 77954614234     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2009.0063     Document Type: Article

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