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Author:   Marwan A. Hassan ,  Olav Slaymaker ,  Simon M. Berkowicz ,  Olav Slaymaker
Publisher:   IAHS Press
Imprint:   IAHS Press
Volume:   No. 261
ISBN:  

9781901502169

ISBN 10:   1901502163
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   December 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1 ASHER SCHICK AND THE NAHAL YAEL EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED Dedication to Asher Peter Schick M. Gordon Wolman A brief summary of a third of a century: Nahal Yael in retrospect, with some ideas for the future of catchment research Asher P. Schick 2 DRAINAGE BASIN PRECIPITATION PROCESSES The study of rainfall distributions in small watersheds in Israel: from early observations to model simulations David Sharon, Adina Margalit & Adit Arazi Constructing synthetic time series of rainfall events for a hyperarid environment, southern Arava, Israel Eldad Barzilay, Yehouda Enzel & Rivka Amit 3 DRAINAGE BASIN RUNOFF Non-calibrated arid zone rainfall-runoff modelling Jens Lange & Chris Leibundgut Runoff events in the Negev, Israel Arie Ben-Zvi & Isabela Shentsis 4 DRAINAGE BASIN SLOPE EROSION Runoff, erosion, and the sustainability of ancient irrigation systems in the Central Negev desert Leslie Shanan The two-dimensional upland crosion model CASC2D-SED Billy E. Johnson & Pierre Y. Julien Spatial variation in channel morphology and sediment dynamics: Gila River, Safford Vallcy, Arizona Janet Hooke Detection and analysis of soil erodibility patterns using air photographs of the Avisur Highlands, Israel Maxim Shoshany Soil loss and viticulture at Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia Robert J. Loughran, Gregory L. Elliott, Lucy T. Maliszewski & Bryan L. Campbell Response of a fluvial system to large-scale land use changes: the Jablonka catchment, Slovakia Milos Stankoviansky, Tomas Cebecauer, Jan Hanusin, Milan Lehotsky, L'ubomir Solin, Marcel Suri & Jan Urbanek Effects of increasing humidity on slope geomorphology: cuesta scarps on the Colorado Plateau, USA Karl-Heinz Schmidt & Peter Meitz 5 FLUVIAL PROCESSES Episodes of flash floods and boulder transport in the Upper Jordan River Moshe Inbar Satellite remote sensing of flood related landscape change resulting from hurricanes in Baja California and the southwestern United States Larry Mayer Hurricane floods as extreme geomorphic events Avijit Gupta Urbanizing alluvial fans as flood-conveying and flood-reducing systems: lessons from the October 1997 Eilat flood Tamir Grodek, Judith Lekach & Asher P. Schick 6 LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS Study of sediment dynamics in the Jordan River-Lake Kinneret contact zone using tracer methods Boris Shleinman, David Wynne & Yury Kamenir Event-based deposition in the ever-emptying Yatir Reservoir, Israel Jonathan B. Laronne The formation and disappearance of a delta at the El-Arish river mouth Micha Klein The geomorphic information content of lake sediments in glacially conditioned terrain Olav Slaymaker & Brian Menounos

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