Comparison of different mass transport calculation methods for wind erosion quantification purposes

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1548-1555

  Panebianco, Juan E ^a   Buschiazzo, Daniel E ^a,b   Zobeck, Ted M ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^b INTA Angui   (Argentina)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass flux profile; Mass transport; Wind erosion

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MASS; CRITICAL STEPS; DIFFERENT MASS; DISCRETE SAMPLING; EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS; EXPONENTIAL MODELS; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN MODEL; MASS FLUX; MASS TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL PROCEDURES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; PROFILE DATA; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; RATIONAL FUNCTION; ROBUST METHODS; SAMPLING HEIGHTS; SOIL SURFACES; SPLINE INTERPOLATION; WIND EROSION; WIND EROSIONS;

CALCULATIONS; EROSION; ESTIMATION; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENTS; SPLINES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

INTERPOLATION;

INTERPOLATION; MASS TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EROSION;

EID: 78649453034     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1995     Document Type: Article

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