Nidda catchm. sediment budget
Holocene sediment budget for the Nidda catchment (1942 sqkm)
based on a datamodeling approach
Quantifying large-scale Holocene soil erosion and sediment transfer along the sediment cascade
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P. Houben and M. Schmidt
Financial support: This research project including 1 PhD position for 2 years has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Project affiliation: IGBP - PAGES LUCIFS initiative
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Main results |
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Nidda catchment erosion and redeposition |
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Fig. 1. Holocene catchment erosion (left-hand side) and catchment deposition (right-hand side); data evaluation scenario: critical-re-interpretation. | ||
Nidda catchment sediment budgetFig.2 . Catchment-scale sediment flux due to man-induced Holocene erosion and within-catchment storage |
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Study area |
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Fig. 3. Nidda catchment (red: location of Rockenberg subcatchment).
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Approach |
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Fig. 4. Soil survay data is provided as db tables that are linked to each other by one-to-many relationships. |
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Acknowledgment
We gratefully acknowledge the DFG for funding this project.