Partitioning interrill splash and wash dynamics: A novel laboratory approach

Soil Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 55-69

  Wan, Y ^a   El Swaify, S A ^a   Sutherland, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Interrill erosion; Oxisol; Sediment transport; Splash; Wash

Indexed keywords

INTERRILL EROSION; MODEL; OXISOL; RAIN SPLASH; RAIN WASH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER EROSION; WEPP;

EID: 0030479778     PISSN: 09333630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0933-3630(95)00035-6     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Al-Durrah, M. and Bradford, J.M., 1981. New methods of studying soil detachment due to waterdrop impact. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 45: 449-953.
2. Bradford, J.M. and Huang, C., 1993. Comparison of interrill soil loss for laboratory and field procedures. Soil Technol., 6: 145-156.
3. Bryan, R.B., 1979. The influence of slope angle on soil entrainment by sheet wash and rainsplash. Earth Surf. Process., 4: 43-58.
4. Dangler, E.W., El-Swaify, S.A., Ahuja, L.R. and Barnett, A.P., 1976. Erodibility of selected Hawaii soils by rainfall simulation. USDA-ARS, Western Region, CA, p. 113.
5. Elliot, W.J., Foster, G.R. and Elliot, A.V., 1991. Soil erosion: processes, impacts and prediction. In: R. Lal and F.J. Pierce (Editors), Soil Management for Sustainability. Soil Cons. Soc. Am., Ankeny, Iowa, pp. 25-34.
6. El-Swaify, S.A., 1980. Physical and mechanical properties of Oxisols. In: B.K.G. Theng (Editor), Soil with Variable Charge. New Zealand Soc. Soil Sci., Wellington, pp. 303-324.
7. Evett, R.S. and Dutt, G.R., 1985. Effect of slope and rainfall intensity on erosion from sodium dispersed, compacted earth microcatchments. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 49: 202-206.
8. Foote, D.E., Hill, E.L., Nakamura, S. and Stephens, F., 1972. Soil Survey of the Islands of Kauai, Oahu, Molokai and Lanai, State of Hawaii. USDA, Soil Conservation Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, p. 232.
9. Foster, G.R., 1990. Process based modelling of soil erosion by water on agricultural land. In: J. Boardman, I.D.L. Foster and J.A. Dearing (Editors), Soil Erosion on Agricultural Land. John Wiley, London, pp. 429-446.
10. Gamier, C.L., 1988. Residue effects on runoff and erosion under simulated rainfall from steeply sloping tropical soils. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Hawaii, Dept. of Agronomy and Soil Sci., 400 pp.
11. Ghadiri, H. and Payne, D., 1988. The formation and characteristics of splash following raindrop impact on soil. J. Soil Sci., 39: 563-575.
12. Govers, G., 1985. Selectivity and transport capacity of thin flows in relation to rill erosion. Catena, 12: 35-49.
13. Huang, C. and Bradford, J.M., 1993. Analysis of slope and runoff factors based on the WEPP erosion model. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 57: 1176-1183.
14. Kinnell, P.I.A., 1990. The mechanics of raindrop induced flow transport. Aust. J. Soil Res., 28: 497-516.
15. Liebenow, A.M., Elliot, W.J., Laflen, M.J. and Kohl, K.D., 1990. Interrill credibility: collection and analysis of data from cropland soils. Trans. ASAE, 33: 1882-1888.
16. Lindeburg, M.R., 1990. Engineer-In-Training Reference Manual, 7th edition. Professional Publication, Inc., CA, 814 pp.
17. Luk, S-H., 1979. Effect of soil properties on erosion by wash and splash. Earth Surf. Process., 4: 241-225.
18. Meyer, L.D., 1981. How rainfall intensity affects interrill erosion. Trans. ASAE, 23: 1472-1475.
19. Meyer, L.D. and Harmon, W.C., 1989. How row-sideslope length and steepness affect sideslope erosion. Trans. ASAE, 32: 639-644.
20. Morgan, R.P.C., 1978. Field studies of rainsplash erosion. Earth Surf. Process., 3: 295-299.
21. Moss, A.J. and Green, P., 1983. Movement of solids in air and water by raindrop impact: effect of drop-size and water depth variation. Aust. J. Soil Res., 21: 257-269.
22. Munn, J.R. Jr. and Huntington, G.L., 1976. A portable rainfall simulator for erodibility and infiltration measurements on rugged terrain. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 40: 622-624.
23. Nearing, M.A., Lane, J.L., Alberts, E.E. and Laflen, J.M., 1990. Prediction technology for soil erosion by water: status and research needs. Soil. Sci. Soc. Am. J., 54: 1702-1711.
24. Parsons, A.J., Abrahams, A.D. and Wainwright, J., 1994. Rainsplash and erosion rates in an interrill area on semi-arid grassland, Southern Arizona. Catena, 22: 215-226.
25. Poesen, J. and Savat, J., 1981. Detachment and transportation of loose sediment by raindrop splash: Part II, detachability and transportability measurements. Catena, 8: 19-41.
26. Proffitt, A.P.B. and Rose, C.W., 1991. Soil erosion processes. I. The relative importance of rainfall detachment and runoff entrainment. Aust. J. Soil Res., 29: 671-683.
27. Quansah, C., 1981. The effect of soil type, slope, rain intensity and their interactions on splash detachment and transport. J. Soil Sci., 32: 215-224.
28. Roels, J.M. and Jonker, P.I., 1983. Probability sampling techniques for estimating soil erosion. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 47: 1224-1228.
29. Sutherland, R.A., Wan, Y., Ziegler, A.D., Lee, C-T., and El-Swaify, S.A., 1995. Splash and wash dynamics: an experimental investigation using an Oxisol. Geoderma, in press.
30. Watson, D.A. and Laflen, J.M., 1986. Soil strength, slope, and rainfall intensity effects on interrill erosion. Trans. ASAE, 29: 98-102.