Exploring effects of rainfall intensity and duration on soil erosion at the catchment scale using openLISEM: Prado catchment, SE Spain

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1034-1049

  Baartman, Jantiene E M ^a   Jetten, Victor G ^b   Ritsema, Coen J ^a   de Vente, Joris ^c,d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catchment scale; OpenLISEM; Rainfall events; Soil erosion modelling

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; CALIBRATION FACTORS; CATCHMENT SCALE; EROSION MODELS; EVENT-BASED; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-INTENSITY RAINFALL; MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; OPENLISEM; OPTIMAL CALIBRATION; RAINFALL EVENT; RAINFALL EVENTS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEMIARID AREA; SINGLE EVENT; SMALL CATCHMENT; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION MODELLING; SOIL-EROSION MODEL; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES;

ARID REGIONS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RAIN; RUNOFF; SOILS; STORMS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 84858866690     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8196     Document Type: Article

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