Enhancing RUSLE to include runoff-driven phenomena

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1373-1390

  Dabney, Seth M ^a   Yoder, Daniel C ^b   Vieira, Dalmo A N ^a   Bingner, Ronald L ^a  

^a USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrated flow; Ephemeral gully; Erosion; Runoff; RUSLE; Sediment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CHANNEL EROSION; CHANNEL SLOPE; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CONCENTRATED FLOW; EPHEMERAL GULLY; GULLY EROSION; HILLSLOPES; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RAINFALL/RUNOFF; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATIONS; RILL EROSION; ROBUST ESTIMATE; RUNOFF MODEL; RUSLE; TIME VARYING; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; STORMS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE; DEPOSITION; GULLY EROSION; HILLSLOPE; MODEL VALIDATION; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION;

MARSHALL COUNTY [MISSISSIPPI]; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 79954517755     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7897     Document Type: Article

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