Complexity and non-linearity in earth surface processes - concepts, methods and applications

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1270-1274

  Temme, Arnaud J A M ^a,e   Keiler, Margreth ^b   Karssenberg, Derek ^c   Lang, Andreas ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Landscape evolution; Non linearity

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS;

COMPLEXITY; EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; NON-LINEARITY;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84947862649     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3712     Document Type: Note

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