Soil erosion assessment and prioritization of affecting factors at plot scale using the Taguchi method

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 448-449, Issue , 2012, Pages 174-180

  Sadeghi, Seyed Hamidreza ^a   Moosavi, Vahid ^a   Karami, Ayoob ^b   Behnia, Negin ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HORMOZGAN   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Erosion plot; Fars Province; Optimization method; Partial effect; Sediment yield; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

EROSION PLOTS; FARS PROVINCE; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PARTIAL EFFECT; SEDIMENT YIELDS;

EROSION; EXPERIMENTS; RATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; TAGUCHI METHODS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGROMETEOROLOGY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; OPTIMIZATION; PRIORITIZATION; SEDIMENT YIELD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SILT; SLOPE; SOIL EROSION; VEGETATION COVER;

FARS; IRAN;

EID: 84862015984     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.04.038     Document Type: Article

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