Modelling Impacts of Climatic Change: Case Studies using the New Generation of Erosion Models

Handbook of Erosion Modelling

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 289-312

  Nunes, J P ^a   Nearing, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change, complex impact on natural and agricultural vegetation; Continuous modelling at slope scale; Ecosystems, dampening impact of modest amounts of climate change; Erosion modelling approaches and climatic change; Erosion models, useful assessment tools supporting climate change studies; Grid based approach, estimation of soil erosion and degree of spatial variability; MEFIDIS, a model optimized for extreme events high process discretization in space and time; Modelling impacts of climatic change case studies, using new generation of erosion models; Potential impacts of climatic change on erosion processes; Single slope WEPP applications SWAT, applied to complex catchments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870264593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328455.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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