The use of a landscape simulator in the validation of the SIBERIA landscape evolution model: transient landforms

Title: The use of a landscape simulator in the validation of the SIBERIA landscape evolution model: transient landforms
Creator: Hancock, G. R.; Willgoose, G. R.
Relation: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Vol. 27, Issue 12, p. 1321-1334
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.414
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2002
Description: SIBERIA is a physically based model for the geomorphic evolution of landforms. It is essential that the SIBERIA model be tested or validated against controlled landform development. Previous studies have demonstrated that SIBERIA is able to simulate declining equilibrium landforms and in this paper we examine SIBERIA's ability to simulate landforms as they evolve to their declining equilibrium form. These landscapes are termed transient landforms. Landscapes generated by SIBERIA were compared to those produced by a physical model (experimental model landforms) at stages of evolution. Comparison of the experimental landscapes with the simulated landscapes using total mass, hypsometric curve, width function, cumulative area distribution and area-slope demonstrate that SIBERIA can simulate the experimental model landscape during development (i.e. transient landscapes).
Subject: landscape simulation; SIBERIA; digital elevation model; geomorphology; hydrology
Identifier: uon:1458
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27198
Identifier: ISSN:0197-9337
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