Simulated soil erosion from a semiarid typical steppe watershed using an integrated aeolian and fluvial prediction model

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 325-340

  Wang, Xixi ^a,b   Liu, Tingxi ^b   Li, Fengling ^b   Gao, Ruizhong ^b   Yang, Xiaomin ^a   Duan, Limin ^b   Luo, Yanyun ^b   Li, Rui ^a  

^a Old Dominion University ^*  (United States)

^b INNER MONGOLIA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Degradation; Desertification; Dry land; Modelling; Soil moisture; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN EROSIONS; DESERTIFICATION; DRY LAND; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; SEMI-ARID REGION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION COVERAGE;

ARID REGIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

EROSION;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOLIAN PROCESS; FLUVIAL PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL EROSION; STEPPE; VEGETATION COVER; WATERSHED;

CHINA;

EID: 84891536715     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9579     Document Type: Article

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