Rainfall, runoff and sediment transport in a Mediterranean mountainous catchment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 540, Issue , 2016, Pages 114-132

  Tuset, J ^a,b   Vericat, D ^a,b,c   Batalla, R J ^a,b,c,d  

^a Fluvial Dynamics Research Group (RIUS wwwfluvialdynamicscom)   (Spain)

^b Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Forest Botany   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^d CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ebro basin; Meso scale catchment; Radar; Rainfall; Ribera Salada; Runoff; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOODS; GAGES; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

EBRO BASIN; EROSION AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORTS; MEDITERRANEAN CATCHMENT; MEDITERRANEAN MOUNTAINS; MESO SCALE; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; RIBERA SALADA; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

SEDIMENTS;

RAIN; RUNOFF;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RADAR; RAINFALL; RIVER DISCHARGE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOODING; FLOW KINETICS; HYDROLOGY; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPRING; SUMMER; WATER CYCLE; WINTER;

CATALONIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LERIDA [CATALONIA]; RIBERA SALADA BASIN; SPAIN;

EID: 84945473788     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.075     Document Type: Article

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