The trends of erosion and suspended load runoff in Asia during the second half of the 20th century

Abstract

The long-term observations of the suspended load runoff, data on factors of erosion, published materials and Internet data were used for determining the regions with cetiain trends of erosion. In the Northern Asia the main factor of erosion changes is climate while in the eastern, southern, south-eastern and south-western regions of Asia it is human activity (deforestation and reforestaton, scarifying, regressing ac.).