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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2471-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2471-2018

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The changing water cycle of the Indo-Gangetic Plain

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-2471-2018

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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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Final revised paper (published on 24 Apr 2018)
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SC1: 'Uncertainties of soil erosion in Garra River (India): Proposal for improving the input factor of soil erosion model', Panos Panagos, 27 Jul 2017
- SC2: 'Response by the authors', Somil Swarnkar, 29 Aug 2017
  - AC1: 'Response by the authors', Somil Swarnkar, 13 Mar 2018
RC1: 'Assessment of uncertainties in soil erosion and sediment yield estiamtes at ungauged basins: an application to the Garra River basin, India', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Sep 2017
- SC3: 'Response by the authors', Somil Swarnkar, 18 Oct 2017
  - AC2: 'Response by the authors', Somil Swarnkar, 13 Mar 2018
RC2: 'NA', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Feb 2018
- AC3: 'Response by the authors', Somil Swarnkar, 13 Mar 2018

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (29 Mar 2018) by Ana Mijic

AR by Somil Swarnkar on behalf of the Authors (03 Apr 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

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.