A portable wind and rainfall simulator for in situ soil erosion measurements

Catena

Volumn 91, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-84

  Fister, W ^a,b   Iserloh, T ^b   Ries, J B ^b   Schmidt, R G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rainfall characteristics; Water erosion; Wind characteristics; Wind erosion; Wind tunnel; Wind driven rain

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; RAINFALL; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; WIND EROSION; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

EID: 84855911263     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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