Predicting soil detachment by raindrops

P. P. Sharma, S. C. Gupta, G. R. Foster

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Abstract

The process of soil erosion by water is modeled by mathematically linking the subprocesses of detachment, transport and deposition of sediments. A model is described that predicts the rate of soil detachment by multiple raindrops impacting on a bare soil surface. The model depends on parameters of a soil-strength-depenedent single-drop detachment model and a bivariate raindrop-size distribution function. The simulated data is analyzed to represent raindrop detachment rate as a linear and a nonlinear function of intensity. Equations that relate the parameters of soil detachment rate vs. intensity functions to the parameters of the single-drop detachment model are presented. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)674-680
Number of pages7
JournalSoil Science Society of America Journal
Volume57
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1993

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