Field experiments constraining the probability distribution of particle travel distances during natural rainstorms on different slope gradients

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 473-485

  Ghahramani, Afshin ^a,e   Yoshiharu, Ishikawa ^b   Mudd, Simon M ^c,d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heavy tailed distribution; Probability distribution function; Rain splash; Sediment transport; Slope gradient

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DIFFERENT SLOPES; DOWNSLOPE; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCHES; HEAVY-TAILED; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; HILLSLOPES; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; LOG-NORMAL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MEASURED DATA; PRECIPITATION DEPTHS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; RADIAL SPLASH; RAIN SPLASH EROSION; SLOPE GRADIENTS; SOIL PARTICLES; SOIL TRANSPORTS; SPLASH DETACHMENT; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TRANSPORT DISTANCES; TRAVEL DISTANCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) MODELS; WEIBULL;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; THUNDERSTORMS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HILLSLOPE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PROBABILITY; RAINSTORM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SOIL EROSION;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 84857740830     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2253     Document Type: Article

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