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 language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 674-680 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Soil Science Society of America Journal |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 1993 |