Hydrologic controls on equilibrium soil depths

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Nicotina L ^a   Tarboton, D G ^b   Tesfa, T K ^b   Rinaldo, A ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT TOPOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHEDS; FIELD DATA; FORCINGS; HYDROLOGIC CONTROLS; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; LONG-TERM INTERACTION; MEASURED DATA; MODELING APPROACH; RUNOFF PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL PRODUCTION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TRANSPORT LAWS; UNGAUGED BASINS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SOILS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CATCHMENT; DATA SET; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED;

BOISE; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952044459     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009538     Document Type: Article

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