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Runoff and erosion models are generally used to assess environmental problems such as soil erosion problems with loss of fertile soil and damage to crops, off-site damage to property and infrastructure by “mud-flows,” and pollution of surface water by sediment with agricultural chemicals and nutrients. These problems occur frequently in the loess zone in Western Europe (Boardman et al., 1994) of which Limburg, the southern province of the Netherlands, forms a small part. The Limburg Soil Erosion Model LISEM, (De Roo et al. 1996a, 1996b; LISEM, 2000) is a physically-based hydrological and soil erosion model, operating at the catchment scale, that was designed to assess these problems. The model simulates runoff and erosion with single rainstorms in agricultural catchments of a size ranging from 1 hectare up to approximately 10 km2. The upper limit size is determined by the fact that in LISEM a stream channel cannot be larger than one pixel; larger catchments with floodplains and river systems cannot be simulated.
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Jetten, V.G., de Roo, A.P.J. (2001). Spatial Analysis of Erosion Conservation Measures with LISEM . In: Harmon, R.S., Doe, W.W. (eds) Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0575-4_14
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