A rainfall simulator for laboratory-scale assessment of rainfall-runoff-sediment transport processes over a two-dimensional flume

Catena

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-72

  Aksoy, Hafzullah ^a   Unal, N Erdem ^a   Cokgor, Sevket ^a   Gedikli, Abdullah ^a   Yoon, Jaeyoung ^b   Koca, Kaan ^a   Inci, S Boran ^a   Eris, Ebru ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Erosion flume; Nozzle; Raindrop energy; Raindrop size distribution; Rainfall simulator; Rainfall uniformity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HILLSLOPE; HYDROGRAPH; INFILTRATION; LABORATORY METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINDROP; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RILL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL EROSION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 84863741512     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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