Soil erosion by wind over tilled surfaces in South Tunisia

Geoderma

Volumn 202-203, Issue , 2013, Pages 8-17

  Labiadh, Mohamed ^a,b   Bergametti, Gilles ^a   Kardous, Mouldi ^a,b   Perrier, Sébastien ^a   Grand, Noël ^a   Attoui, Badie ^b   Sekrafi, Saad ^b   Marticorena, Béatrice ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES RÉGIONS ARIDES   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Horizontal flux; Modelling; Soil erosion by wind; South Tunisia; Tilled surfaces

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PLOTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; HORIZONTAL FLUXES; SENSITIVITY TESTS; SOIL EROSION; TUNISIA;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; EROSION; MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; SOILS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FIELD METHOD; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PLOWING; PRECISION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL EROSION; WIND EROSION;

TUNISIA;

EID: 84876317505     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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