The effect of slope steepness and antecedent moisture content on interrill erosion, runoff and sediment size distribution in the highlands of ethiopia

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2367-2375

  Defersha, M B ^a   Quraishi, S ^b   Melesse, A ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTECEDENT MOISTURE; BLACK SOIL; ETHIOPIA; FLOWING WATERS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INITIAL MOISTURE CONTENT; INTERRILL EROSION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RUNOFF DEPTH; SANDY CLAY LOAM; SEDIMENT SIZE; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SLOPE STEEPNESS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL TYPES; SPLASH EROSION; TWO-PHASE PROCESS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

EROSION;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; INTERRILL EROSION; LABORATORY METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SLOPE; SOIL EROSION; SOIL TYPE; TREND ANALYSIS; UPLAND REGION; WATER FLOW;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 79960763463     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-2367-2011     Document Type: Article

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