Process-based modelling of erosion, sediment transport and reservoir siltation in mesoscale semi-arid catchments

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2001-2018

  Bronstert, Axel ^a   de Araújo, José Carlos ^b   Batalla, Ramon J ^c   Costa, Alexandre Cunha ^d   Delgado, José Miguel ^a   Francke, Till ^a   Foerster, Saskia ^e   Guentner, Andreas ^e   López Tarazón, José Andrés ^c   Mamede, George Leite ^d   Medeiros, Pedro Henrique ^f   Mueller, Eva ^a   Vericat, Damià ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^d Campus da Liberdade Avenida da Abolição   (Brazil)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^f Science and Technology of Ceará   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Deposition; Erosion; Modelling; Sediment transfer; Semi arid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922002832     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-014-0994-1     Document Type: Article

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