Advancing understanding of runoff and sediment transfers in agricultural catchments through simultaneous observations across scales

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1749-1760

  Deasy, C ^a   Baxendale, S A ^b   Heathwaite, A L ^a   Ridall, G ^b   Hodgkinson, R ^c   Brazier, R E ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment; Monitoring scale; Processes; Runoff; Sediment transfer

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS; DATA SETS; EVENT-RESPONSE; FIELD DRAINS; LOG-NORMAL; MACROPORES; MULTISCALES; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; PROCESSES; RAINFALL EVENT; REGRESSION MODEL; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SCALE EFFECTS; SEDIMENT TRANSFER; SEDIMENT TRANSFERS; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL SCALE;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CATCHMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SCALE EFFECT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION;

EID: 80053909627     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2197     Document Type: Article

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