Event-based soil loss models for construction sites

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 524, Issue , 2015, Pages 780-788

  Trenouth, William R ^a   Gharabaghi, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Construction sites; Modeling; Monitoring; Soil loss

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EROSION; GRADING; LAND USE; LINEAR REGRESSION; MODELS; MONITORING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH;

CONSTRUCTION SITES; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROLS; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SOIL LOSS; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

SOILS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84926051979     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.03.010     Document Type: Article

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