Estimation of runoff, peak discharge and sediment load at the event scale in a medium-size mediterranean watershed using the annagnps model

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 340-355

  Bisantino, T ^a   Bingner, R ^b   Chouaib, W ^c   Gentile, F ^a   Trisorio Liuzzi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Continuous monitoring; Modelling; Soil erosion; Suspended sediment transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928583252     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2213     Document Type: Article

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