Rainfall erosivity in Brazil: A review

Catena

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 139-147

  Oliveira, Paulo Tarso Sanches ^a   Wendland, Edson ^a   Nearing, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual precipitation; Erosion; Erosivity; R factor; RUSLE; Water erosion

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATABASE; EROSIVITY; GEOSTATISTICS; INTERPOLATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

BRAZIL;

SCOPUS;

EID: 84866752733     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2012.08.006     Document Type: Review

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