Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-695-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-695-2023
Research article
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28 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 28 Jul 2023

Testing the sensitivity of the CAESAR-Lisflood landscape evolution model to grid cell size

Christopher J. Skinner and Thomas J. Coulthard

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Dataset for Skinner & Coulthard (2022) - the DEMSIP study C. Skinner and T. Coulthard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7908491

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Short summary
Landscape evolution models allow us to simulate the way the Earth's surface is shaped and help us to understand relevant processes, in turn helping us to manage landscapes better. The models typically represent the land surface using a grid of square cells of equal size, averaging heights in those squares. This study shows that the size chosen by the modeller for these grid cells is important, with larger sizes making sediment output events larger but less frequent.