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Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-1263-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-1263-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
Research article
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03 Dec 2025
Research article |  | 03 Dec 2025

Reconstructing landscapes: an adjoint model of the stream power and diffusion erosion equation

Carole Petit, Anthony Jourdon, and Nicolas Coltice

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We usually simulate how landscapes evolve by starting from an imaginary situation in the past, and applying physical laws to simulate the effect of erosion and tectonics. Here, we reverse the approach: starting from today's landscape, we work backwards to find out how it has evolved. Using a simple physical description of erosive and tectonic processes, we can infer which areas are more sensitive to erosion, or how the landscape looked like before erosion, or how fast it has been uplifting.
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