Modelling Discharge and Sediment Yield at Catchment Scale Using Connectivity Components

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 933-945

  Masselink, Rens J H ^a   Keesstra, Saskia D ^a   Temme, Arnaud J A M ^a   Seeger, Manuel ^b   Giménez, Rafael ^c   Casalí, Javier ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Discharge; Model; N Spain; Sediment yield

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); MODELS; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

BIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONNECTIVITY; CONNECTIVITY COMPONENTS; NORMALISED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PRECIPITATION INDICES; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT YIELDS;

CATCHMENTS;

CATCHMENT; CONNECTIVITY; DISCHARGE; MODELING; SEDIMENT YIELD; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

NAVARRA; SPAIN;

EID: 84966564994     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2512     Document Type: Article

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