Operational USLE-Based Modelling of Soil Erosion in Czech Republic, Austria, and Bavaria-Differences in Model Adaptation, Parametrization, and Data Availability
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21110%2F20%3A00345789" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21110/20:00345789 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/app10103647" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/app10103647</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10103647" target="_blank" >10.3390/app10103647</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Operational USLE-Based Modelling of Soil Erosion in Czech Republic, Austria, and Bavaria-Differences in Model Adaptation, Parametrization, and Data Availability
Original language description
In the European Union, soil erosion is identified as one of the main environmental threats, addressed with a variety of rules and regulations for soil and water conservation. The by far most often officially used tool to determine soil erosion is the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and its regional adaptions. The aim of this study is to use three different regional USLE-based approaches in three different test catchments in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Austria to determine differences in model results and compare these with the revised USLE-base European soil erosion map. The different regional model adaptations and implementation techniques result in substantial differences in test catchment specific mean erosion (up to 75% difference). Much more pronounced differences were modelled for individual fields. The comparison of the region-specific USLE approaches with the revised USLE-base European erosion map underlines the problems and limitations of harmonization procedures. The EU map limits the range of modelled erosion and overall shows a substantially lower mean erosion compared to all region-specific approaches. In general, the results indicate that even if many EU countries use USLE technology as basis for soil conservation planning, a truly consistent method does not exist, and more efforts are needed to homogenize the different methods without losing the USLE-specific knowledge developed in the different regions over the last decades.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Applied Sciences
ISSN
2076-3417
e-ISSN
2076-3417
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000541440000308
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085594982