@article{fdi:010079429,
  title = {{C}omparison of the {MUSLE} model and two years of solid transport measurement, in the {B}ouregreg {B}asin, and impact on the sedimentation in the {S}idi {M}ohamed {B}en {A}bdellah reservoir, {M}orocco},
  author = {{E}zzaouini, {M}. {A}. and {M}ah{\'e}, {G}il and {K}acimi, {I}. and {Z}erouali, {A}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}he evaluation and quantification of solids transport in {M}orocco often uses the {U}niversal {S}oil {L}oss {M}odel ({USLE}) and the revised version {RUSLE}, which presents a calibration difficulty. {I}n this study, we apply the {MUSLE} model to predict solid transport, for the first time on a large river basin in the {K}ingdom, calibrated by two years of solid transport measurements on four main gauging stations at the entrance of the {S}idi {M}ohamed {B}en {A}bdellah dam. {T}he application of the {MUSLE} on the basin demonstrated relatively small differences between the measured values and those expected for the calibrated version, these differences are, for the non-calibrated version, +5% and +102% for the years 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 respectively, and between -33% and +34% for the calibrated version. {B}esides, the measured and modeled volumes that do not exceed 1.78 x 10(6)m(3)/year remain well below the dam's siltation rate of 9.49 x 10(6)m(3)/year, which means that only 18% of the dam's sediment comes from upstream. {T}his seems very low because it is calculated from only two years. {T}he main hypothesis that we can formulate is that the sediments of the dam most probably comes from the erosion of its banks.},
  keywords = {modeling ; {MUSLE} ; erosion ; solid transport ; dam ; {B}ouregreg ; {M}orocco ; {MAROC} ; {BOUREGREG} {BASSIN}},
  booktitle = {{M}ultiscale impacts of anthropogenic and climate changes on tropical and mediterranean hydrology},
  journal = {{W}ater},
  volume = {12},
  numero = {7},
  pages = {art. 1882 [27p.]},
  year = {2020},
  DOI = {10.3390/w12071882},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010079429},
}