Model of transferability for the rainfall erosivity factor

Autor: da Silva Barbosa, Ana Júlia Soares, Blanco, Claudio José Cavalcante, de Melo, Adayana Maria Queiroz, de Souza Costa, Carlos Eduardo Aguiar, da Silva Holanda, Patrícia
Zdroj: Sustainable Water Resources Management; April 2023, Vol. 9 Issue: 2
Abstrakt: Empirical models such as the universal soil loss equation (USLE) are used to measure sediment production. Applying the USLE requires determining the rainfall erosivity factor R. This factor is calculated from the EI30value, which is based on semi-hourly rainfalls that are costly to obtain. In this study, a model for transposing the Rfactor from regions with semi-hourly rainfall data to regions with only daily rainfall data is proposed. EI30values were calculated and related to the rainfall coefficient Rc. Potential correlation model was fitted to these data and transposed to a second area within the same climatic region. Observed rainfall data in this area yielded an EI30of 9937.44 MJ mm ha−1h−1. The transposed model gave an EI30of 11,052.04 MJ mm ha−1h−1. The error is 10.08%, which indicates that the methodology is suitable for estimating erosivity factors for locations that lack semi-hourly rainfall data.
Databáze: Supplemental Index