An evaluation of landscape evolution models to simulate decadal and centennial scale soil erosion in grassland catchments

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 398, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 171-183

  Hancock, G R ^a   Coulthard, T J ^b   Martinez, C ^a   Kalma, J D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CAESAR; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Sediment transport; SIBERIA; Soil erosion modelling

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CAESAR; DECADAL TIMESCALE; DIGITAL ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; EROSION RATES; FIELD-MEASURED DATA; FLOW DIRECTION ALGORITHMS; GRASSLAND CATCHMENT; HILLSLOPES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; RAINFALL CONDITION; SIBERIA; SLOPE LENGTH; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION MODELLING; SOIL EROSION RATE; SOIL PARTICLE SIZE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; FORECASTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CATCHMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION RATE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRASSLAND; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE ANGLE; SOIL EROSION; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79551485073     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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