Computation of Lake or Reservoir Sedimentation in Terms of Soil Erosion [chapter]

Vlassios Hrissanthou
2011 Sediment Transport in Aquatic Environments  
235 individual factors of RUSLE, with the exception of the topographic factor, renders the application of RUSLE to large basins practically impossible. The unit sediment graph, as well as the unit hydrograph in hydrology, is a system function describing the sediment behaviour of a basin. It enables the conversion of the effective rainfall or soil detachment (system input) in the basin into sediment yield (system output). Generally, models based on a system function have the possibility to follow the time variation of sediment yield.
doi:10.5772/22631 fatcat:g5knbrdzljhlvjzvmemov3whqe