Decadal modelling of rainfall erosivity in Belgium

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 511-519

  Diodato, N ^a   Verstraeten, G ^b   Bellocchi, G ^a,c  

^a Met European Research Observatory   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

Author keywords

DREM, Decadal Rainfall Erosivity Model; Extreme precipitations; Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation; Ukkel (Belgium)

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BELGIUM; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; INTER-DECADAL VARIATIONS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; RAINFALL EROSIVITY; REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATIONS;

RAIN;

EID: 84917672522     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2168     Document Type: Article

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