Quantifying suspended sediment sources during runoff events in headwater catchments using spectrocolorimetry

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1478-1492

  Legout, Cédric ^a   Poulenard, Jérôme ^b   Nemery, Julien ^a   Navratil, Oldrich ^c   Grangeon, Thomas ^a   Evrard, Olivier ^d   Esteves, Michel ^a  

^a VERIMAG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Conservative tracer properties; Diffuse reflectance spectrometry; Fingerprinting; Mountainous catchment; Partial least squares regression; Suspended sediments; Visible range

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DATA SET; GYPSUM; HEADWATER; PARTICLE SIZE; REFLECTANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

FRANCE;

EID: 84881544495     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-013-0728-9     Document Type: Article

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