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| | USGS - Luquillo WEBB Project, Puerto Rico |
 | | The USGS-funded WEBB program is aimed at improving understanding of processes controlling terrestrial water, energy, and biogeochemical fluxes, their interactions, and their relations to climatic variables; and the ability to predict continental water, energy, and biogeochemical budgets over a range of spatial and temporal scales (Lins, 1994, Hirsch, 1998). |
 | | Some of the principal study objectives are the comparison of chemical weathering, erosion, and mass wasting processes in an environment with a history of anthropogenic modification and periodic extreme hydrologic events associated with the passage of hurricanes. |
 | | Luquillo WEBB publications describe a variety of topics including watershed-scale water and sediment budgets, surface runoff, hillslope processes and sources of fluvial sediment, slopewash, soil creep, tree throw, and landsliding. |
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