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Rainfall intensity profile induced changes in surface‒subsurface flow and soil loss as influenced by surface cover type: A long-term in situ field study

Ji’an Duan, Haijin Zheng, Lingyun Wang, Yaojun Liu, Minghao Mo, Jie Yang

International Soil and Water Conservation Research · 2024

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Summary

Due to global warming, changes in the rainfall intensity profile (i.e., the temporal intensity distribution within a rainfall event) increase the difficulty of accurate erosion prediction and control. Surface cover has been widely used as a critical measure to control soil erosion worldwide. However, the effects of the rainfall intensity profile (RIP) on soil erosion under different surface covers are not fully understood. In this study, long-term in situ field observations of the rain hyetograph, surface runoff coefficient (SRC), subsurface flow rate (SFR), and soil loss rate (SLR) from bare land, litter cover and grass cover were conducted over 11 consecutive years in the red soil hilly region of southern China. According to the occurrence time of the most intense rainfall, 226 erosive e

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.iswcr.2024.05.003
Catalogue ID
SNmojqlxqk-8f5dkb
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