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Article Dans Une Revue Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Année : 2024

Combining hillslope erosion and river connectivity models to assess large scale fine sediment transfers: Application over the Rhône River (France)

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Abstract Sediment connectivity at the catchment scale includes the processes linking sediment sources, sinks and the river outlet. Soil erosion models usually estimate yields without considering riverine processes or human infrastructure that may affect sediment connectivity. Quantifying these processes at a large scale is a determinant of understanding sediment transfers from continental lands to marine ecosystems. This study tries to fill this gap by coupling the soil erosion model WaTEM/SEDEM (WS) with the riverine connectivity tool CASCADE to quantify sediment fluxes in the Rhône watershed. The coupling returned a good fit, with deviations of −51.7%. WS alone predicts the exported fluxes better with a deviation of −34.9%. Nevertheless, this paper shows the importance of considering connectivity and transport capacity to develop a more realistic representation of fine sediment dynamics at a large scale. However, connectivity tools depend on the quality of the models (soil erosion and hydrology) and the geomorphological data on which they depend, which is a limiting factor in large‐scale studies.

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Géographie
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hal-04678894 , version 1 (27-08-2024)

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Clément Fabre, Mathieu Fressard, Simone Bizzi, Flora Branger, Hervé Piegay. Combining hillslope erosion and river connectivity models to assess large scale fine sediment transfers: Application over the Rhône River (France). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2024, 49 (10), pp.3027-3045. ⟨10.1002/esp.5874⟩. ⟨hal-04678894⟩
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