Process Modelling and Landform Evolution

ISBN-13: 9783540649328 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 314 str.

Stefan Hergarten; Horst Neugebauer; S. Hergarten

Opis

A presentation of approaches to landscape modelling, not only from geography but also from various disciplines, including applied mathematics, computer science and geophysics. Methods of terrain representation, analysis and classification are covered as well as short- and long-term process models.

Spis treści

The need for field evidence in modelling landform evolution.- Relations between land surface properties: Altitude, slope and curvature.- Gibbs fields with multiple pairwise interactions as a tool for modelling grid-based data.- Adaptive hierarchical methods for landscape representation and analysis.- Numerical simulation of surface runoff and infiltration of water.- A dupuit approximation for saturated-unsaturated lateral soil water flow.- Erosional development of small scale drainage networks.- A combined conceptual model for the effects of fissure-induced infiltration on slope stability.- Local slope stability analysis.- Landscape modelling at Regional to Continental scales.- Exploring the potential for physically-based models and contemporary slope processes to examine the causes of holocene mass movement.- Self-organized criticality in landsliding processes.- Tectonic predesign in geomorphology.- Modelling changes in terrain resistance as a component of landform evolution in unstable hill country.- Precision of parameter estimation in meander models.