Long-term trends in rainfall erosivity-analysis of high resolution precipitation time series (1937-2007) from Western Germany

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 171-172, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-123

  Fiener, Peter ^a,b   Neuhaus, Peter ^a   Botschek, Johannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Erosivity; Soil erosion; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CEREAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EROSIVITY; FLASH FLOOD; HARVESTING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SOIL EROSION; TIME SERIES;

GERMANY;

EID: 84874233856     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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