Comparing landscape evolution models with quantitative field data at the millennial time scale in the Belgian loess belt

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1300-1312

  Temme, A J A M ^a   Peeters, I ^b   Buis, E ^a   Veldkamp, A ^c   Govers, G ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

LAPSUS; Reduced complexity; Resolution; Reverse time modelling; WATEM LT

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT SCALE; FIELD DATA; FLOW CONVERGENCE; LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LAPSUS; MODEL EFFICIENCY; MODEL OUTPUTS; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; REVERSE TIME MODELLING; SMALL CATCHMENT; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE MODELS; TIME-SCALES; WATEM LT; WATER EROSION;

AGRICULTURE; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; EROSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RUNOFF; SOIL TESTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEXITY; DEPOSITION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LOESS; MODEL VALIDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOIL EROSION; TIMESCALE; WATER EROSION;

EID: 79960426746     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2152     Document Type: Article

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