Modelling soil erosion with a downscaled landscape evolution model

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1046-1055

  Coulthard, Tom J ^a   Hancock, Greg R ^b   Lowry, John B C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Supervising Scientist Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Landscape evolution; Modelling; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BED LOAD; CHANNEL PROCESS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; EROSION PLOTS; FIELD-MEASURED DATA; LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; NORTHERN TERRITORIES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICALLY BASED; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; SEDIMENT DELIVERY; SEDIMENT LOADS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL EROSION RATE; SOIL LOSS; SOIL-EROSION MODEL; SPACE SCALE; SPATIAL SCALE; USE-MODEL;

DRAINAGE; EROSION; MODELS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BEDLOAD; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; DRAINAGE NETWORK; EROSION RATE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84864772285     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3226     Document Type: Article

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