Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-619-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-619-2020
Research article
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16 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 16 Jul 2020

Modelling impacts of spatially variable erosion drivers on suspended sediment dynamics

Giulia Battista, Peter Molnar, and Paolo Burlando

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Suspended sediment load in rivers is highly uncertain because of spatial and temporal variability. By means of a hydrology and suspended sediment transport model, we investigated the effect of spatial variability in precipitation and surface erodibility on catchment sediment fluxes in a mesoscale river basin. We found that sediment load depends on the spatial variability in erosion drivers, as this affects erosion rates and the location and connectivity to the channel of the erosion areas.
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