The sediment budget of a highly dynamic mesoscale catchment: The River Isábena

Geomorphology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-28

  Lopez Tarazon J A ^a   Batalla, R J ^a,b,c   Vericat, D ^a,b,d   Francke, T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Forest Botany   (Spain)

^c CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ebro basin; Quantile regression forests; Random forests; River Is bena; Sediment budget; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BADLANDS; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST; INTERPOLATION; RIVER BASIN; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD;

ARAGON; EBRO BASIN; HUESCA [ARAGON]; ISABENA RIVER; SPAIN;

EID: 82855175113     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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