Measurements of rill and gully erosion in Sicily

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2221-2227

  Di Stefano, Costanza ^a   Ferro, Vito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ephemeral gully; Erosion measurements; Erosion modelling; Gully; Rill; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

EPHEMERAL GULLY; EROSION MEASUREMENTS; EROSION MODELLING; GULLY; RILL; SOIL EROSION;

EROSION;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPHEMERAL STREAM; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY EROSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RILL;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 79959942869     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7977     Document Type: Article

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