Comparison of runoff and soil loss generated on two plot sizes during rainfall simulation experiments
Result description
Water erosion is a natural process of soil surface disturbance caused by rainfall and surface runoff and consequent transport of sediment and nutrients. Synthetic rainfall-runoff and erosion events and mathematical models are still actual and useful methods for analysing processes involved in surface runoff formation. Simulators with watered area of 1 m2 are often used due to the technical, financial and human resources limitations. Disadvantage of such small-scale simulators is that concentrated runoffseldom developes there which makes observations difficult to upscale. We present a set of experiments which were focused on the effect of plot size on observed surface runoff, soil loss and particle size distribution of suspended soils and on formationof preferential pathways. The contribution presents the results of two years of measuring with the rainfall simulator. Presented experiments were focused especially on the comparison of runoff process dynamics, total runoff volume and soi
Keywords
sediment transportsoil erosionrainfall simulatorexperimental plots
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
Result on the web
—
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
—
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Comparison of runoff and soil loss generated on two plot sizes during rainfall simulation experiments
Original language description
Water erosion is a natural process of soil surface disturbance caused by rainfall and surface runoff and consequent transport of sediment and nutrients. Synthetic rainfall-runoff and erosion events and mathematical models are still actual and useful methods for analysing processes involved in surface runoff formation. Simulators with watered area of 1 m2 are often used due to the technical, financial and human resources limitations. Disadvantage of such small-scale simulators is that concentrated runoffseldom developes there which makes observations difficult to upscale. We present a set of experiments which were focused on the effect of plot size on observed surface runoff, soil loss and particle size distribution of suspended soils and on formationof preferential pathways. The contribution presents the results of two years of measuring with the rainfall simulator. Presented experiments were focused especially on the comparison of runoff process dynamics, total runoff volume and soi
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
DA - Hydrology and limnology
OECD FORD branch
—
Result continuities
Project
TA02020647: Atlas EROZE - a modern tool for soil erosion assessment
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Basic information
Result type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP
DA - Hydrology and limnology
Year of implementation
2015