Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2471-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2471-2018
Research article
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24 Apr 2018
Research article |  | 24 Apr 2018

Assessment of uncertainties in soil erosion and sediment yield estimates at ungauged basins: an application to the Garra River basin, India

Somil Swarnkar, Anshu Malini, Shivam Tripathi, and Rajiv Sinha

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Several rivers basins in the Ganga plains suffer from very high sediment production in their catchment and there are no good estimates of sediment yield from these basins due to a lack of gauge data. The RUSLE model offers an alternative approach and the same has been applied in a small basin in the Ganga plains. The study demonstrated the usefulness of the proposed methodology for quantifying uncertainty in soil erosion and sediment yield estimates at ungauged basins.