A daily rainfall erosivity model for Western Amazonia
- Rainfall erosivities as defined by the R factor from the universal soil loss equation were determined for all events during a two-year period at the station La Cuenca in western Amazonia. Three methods based on a power relationship between rainfall amount and erosivity were then applied to estimate event and daily rainfall erosivities from the respective rainfall amounts. A test of the resulting regression equations against an independent data set proved all three methods equally adequate in predicting rainfall erosivity from daily rainfall amount. We recommend the Richardson model for testing in the Amazon Basin, and its use with the coefficient from La Cuenca in western Amazonia.
Author details: | Helmut ElsenbeerORCiD, Keith Cassel, W. Tinner |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-16962 |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe (paper 050) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 1993 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2008/03/28 |
Tag: | EROSION; KINETIC-ENERGY; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES; UNITED-STATES |
Source: | Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. - 48 (1993), 5, p. 439 - 444. - ISSN 0022-4561 (print), 1941-3300 (online) |
Organizational units: | Extern / Extern |
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Umweltwissenschaften und Geographie | |
DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geoökologie |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | first published in: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation - 48 (1993), 5, p. 439 - 444 ISSN: 0022-4561 (print), 1941-3300 (online) |