Assessing the sources of uncertainty associated with the calculation of rainfall kinetic energy and erosivity - Application to the Upper Llobregat Basin, NE Spain

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 679-688

  Catari, G ^a,b   Latron, J ^a   Gallart, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION; EROSIVITY; INSTRUMENTAL ERROR; LOCAL SOURCE; MODEL FACTORS; PRECIPITATION DATA; PYRENEES; RAINFALL EROSIVITY; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL KINETIC ENERGY; RIVER BASINS; SOIL EROSION MODELLING; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; KINETIC ENERGY; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RAIN;

DATA SET; EROSIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; SOIL EROSION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

CATALONIA; LLOBREGAT BASIN; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 79952210368     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-679-2011     Document Type: Article

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