Pacific Southwest

Title: Sedimentation in the chaparral: how do you handle unusual events?

Author: "Rice, Raymond M."

Date: 1982

Source: "In: Sediment Budgets and Routing in Forested Drainage Basins: Proceedings of the Symposium; 31 May - 1 June 1982; Corvallis, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-141. Portland, Oregon: Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 1982: 39-49."

Description: "Abstract - Processes of erosion and sedimentation in steep chaparral drainage basins of southern California are described. The word ""hyperschedastic"" is coined to describe the sedimentation regime which is highly variable because of the interaction of marginally stable drainage basins, great variability in storm inputs, and the random occurrence of brush fires. The difficulties and advantages of describing chaparral sedimentation using either empiric or process models are dicussed. Modeling based on Monte Carlo simulation is suggested as a way of capturing many of the benefits of empiric and process models."

Keywords: "PSW4351, sedimentation, erosion, chaparral, drainage basins, sediment budget"

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"Rice, Raymond M."  1982.  Sedimentation in the chaparral: how do you handle unusual events?.   "In: Sediment Budgets and Routing in Forested Drainage Basins: Proceedings of the Symposium; 31 May - 1 June 1982; Corvallis, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-141. Portland, Oregon: Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 1982: 39-49.".