Channel movement and erosion response to rainfall variability in southeast Australia

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 663-673

  Hancock, G R ^a   Coulthard, T J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autogenic feedback; CAESAR; Climate change; Nonlinearity; Sediment transport; Soil erosion modelling

Indexed keywords

CAESAR; CHANNEL POSITION; EPHEMERAL STREAMS; EROSION MODELS; EROSION RATES; EXTERNAL FORCING; EXTRINSIC FORCES; FORCINGS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; HUMAN TIME SCALE; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NON-LINEARITY; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SOIL EROSION MODELLING; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA; STREAM CHANNELS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CATCHMENTS;

AVULSION; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EPHEMERAL STREAM; EROSION RATE; FLOW MODELING; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84857356380     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8166     Document Type: Article

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