The stream power law, expressed as E= KA m S n—where E is erosion rate [LT− 1], K is an
erodibility coefficient [T− 1 L (1− 2m)], A is drainage area [L 2], S is channel gradient [L/L] …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

TopoToolbox is a MATLAB program for the analysis of digital elevation models (DEMs). With
the release of version 2, the software adopts an object-oriented programming (OOP) …

Introduction River networks, the backbone of most landscapes on Earth, collect and
transport water, sediment, organic matter, and nutrients from upland mountain regions to the …

The ongoing debate about the nature of coupling between climate and tectonics in mountain
ranges derives, in part, from an imperfect understanding of how topography, climate …

The stream power incision model (SPIM) is a cornerstone of quantitative geomorphology. It
states that river incision rate is the product of drainage area and channel slope raised to the …

Landscapes on Earth retain a record of the tectonic, environmental and climatic history
under which they formed. Landscapes tend towards an equilibrium in which rivers attain a …

Quantitative analysis of digital topographic data is an increasingly important part of many
studies in the geosciences. Initially, performing these analyses was a niche endeavor …

Efforts to extract information about climate and tectonics from topography commonly assume
that river networks are static. Drainage divides can migrate through time, however, and …

Our capability to reconstruct past landscapes and the processes that shape them underpins
our understanding of paleo-Earth. We take advantage of a global-scale landscape evolution …