Temporal variability of rainfall in a semiarid environment in Brazil and its effect on sediment transport processes

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1216-1223

  Medeiros, Pedro Henrique Augusto ^a   de Araújo, José Carlos ^b  

^a Campus Maracanaú Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Ceará IFCE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Rainfall regime; Sediment yield; Semiarid; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DISCHARGE; EROSIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENT YIELD; SEMIARID REGION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84901831026     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-013-0809-9     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Almeida COS, Amorim RSS, Couto EG, Eltz FLF, Borges LEC (2010) Potencial erosivo da chuva de Cuiabá, MT: Distribuição e correlação com a precipitação pluviométrica. Rev Bras Eng Agríc Ambient 15: 178-184.
2. Angima SD, Stott DE, O'Neill MK, Ong CK, Weesies GA (2003) Soil erosion prediction using RUSLE for central Kenyan highland conditions. Agr Ecosyst Environ 97: 295-308.
3. Arnaud P, Lavabre J, Fouchier C, Diss S, Javelle P (2011) Sensitivity of hydrological models to uncertainty in rainfall input. Hydrol Sci J 56(3): 397-410.
4. Bahadur KCK (2009) Mapping soil erosion susceptibility using remote sensing and GIS: a case of the Upper Nam Wa Watershed, Nan Province, Thailand. Environ Geol 57: 695-705.
5. Bonilla CA, Vidal KL (2011) Rainfall erosivity in Central Chile. J Hydrol 410: 126-133.
6. Carvalho DF, Machado RL, Evangelista AWP, Khoury Júnior JK, Silva LDB (2010) Distribuição, probabilidade de ocorrência e período de retorno dos índices de erosividade EI30 e KE > 25 em Seropédica-RJ. Eng Agríc 30: 244-252.
7. de Araújo JC, Medeiros PHA (2013) Impact of dense reservoir networks on water resources in semiarid environments. Aust J Water Res 17(1): 87-100.
8. de Araújo JC, Piedra JIG (2009) Comparative hydrology: analysis of a semiarid and a humid tropical watershed. Hydrol Process 23: 1169-1178.
9. de Araújo JC, Güntner A, Bronstert A (2006) Loss of reservoir volume by sediment deposition and its impact on water availability in semiarid Brazil. Hydrol Sci J 51: 157-170.
10. Dias AS, Silva JRC (2003) A erosividade das chuvas em Fortaleza (CE). I-distribuição, probabilidade de ocorrência e período de retorno-1a aproximação. Rev Bras Ciênc Solo 27: 335-345.
11. Eltaif NI, Gharaibeh MA, Al-Zaitawi F, Alhamad MN (2010) Approximation of rainfall erosivity factors in North Jordan. Pedosphere 20: 711-717.
12. Figueiredo JV (2011) Início da geração de escoamento superficial em uma bacia semiárida em Caatinga preservada. Masters Dissertation, Federal University of Ceará, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Brazil.
13. Foster GR, McCool DK, Renard KG, Moldenhauer WC (1981) Conversion of the Universal Soil Loss Equation to SI metric units. J Soil Water Conserv 36: 355-359.
14. Frischkorn H, de Araújo JC, Santiago MMF (2003) Water resources of Ceará and Piauí. In: Gaiser T, Krol M, Frischkorn H, de Araújo JC (eds) Global change and regional impacts. Springer, Berlin, pp 87-94.
15. Funceme-Meteorological and Water Resources Foundation of Ceará (2012) www. funceme. br. Accessed 10 Feb 2012.
16. Haregeweyn N, Melesse B, Tsunekawa A, Tsubo M, Meshesha D, Balana BB (2012) Reservoir sedimentation and its mitigating strategies: a case study of Angereb reservoir (NW Ethiopia). J Soils Sediments 12: 291-305.
17. Hoyos N, Waylen PR, Jaramillo A (2005) Seasonal and spatial patterns of erosivity in a tropical watershed of the Colombian Andes. J Hydrol 314: 177-191.
18. Huang J, Zhang J, Zhang Z, Xu C-Y (2013) Spatial and temporal variations in rainfall erosivity during 1960-2005 in the Yangtze River basin. Stoch Env Res Risk A 27: 337-351.
19. Lee JH, Heo JH (2011) Evaluation of estimation methods for rainfall erosivity based on annual precipitation in Korea. J Hydrol 409: 30-48.
20. Lima Neto IE, Wiegand M, de Araújo JC (2011) Sediment redistribution due to a dense reservoir network in a large semi-arid Brazilian basin. Hydrol Sci J 56: 319-333.
21. López-Vicente M, Lana-Renault N, García-Ruiz JM, Navas A (2011) Assessing the potential effect of different land cover management practices on sediment yield from an abandoned farmland catchment in the Spanish Pyrenees. J Soils Sediments 11: 1440-1455.
22. Mannaerts CM, Gabriels D (2000) Rainfall erosivity in Cape Verde. Soil Tillage Res 55: 207-212.
23. Medeiros PHA, Güntner A, Francke T, Mamede G, de Araújo JC (2010) Modelling spatio-temporal patterns of sediment yield and connectivity in a semiarid catchment with the WASA-SED model. Hydrol Sci J 55: 636-648.
24. Obled C, Wendling J, Beven K (1994) The sensitivity of hydrological models to spatial rainfall patterns: an evaluation using observed data. J Hydrol 159: 305-333.
25. Pinheiro EAR, Costa CAG, de Araújo JC (2013) Effective root depth of the Caatinga biome. J Arid Environ 89: 1-4.
26. Salako FK (2010) Development of isoerodent maps for Nigeria from daily rainfall amount. Geoderma 156: 372-378.
27. Silva AM (2004) Rainfall erosivity map for Brazil. Catena 57: 251-259.
28. Slimane AB, Raclot D, Evrard O, Sanaa M, Lefèvre I, Ahmadi M, Tounsi M, Rumpel C, Mammou AB, Le Bissonnais Y (2013) Fingerprinting sediment sources in the outlet reservoir of a hilly cultivated catchment in Tunisia. J Soils Sediments 13(4): 801-815.
29. Smith MB, Koren VI, Zhang Z, Reed SM, Pan JJ, Moreda F (2004) Runoff response to spatial variability in precipitation: an analysis of observed data. J Hydrol 298: 267-286.
30. Sun Y, Solomon S, Dai A, Portmann RW (2006) How often does it rain? J Clim 19: 916-934.
31. Torrico JJT (1974) Práticas hidrológicas. Transcon, Rio de Janeiro, p 119.
32. Wischmeier WH, Smith DD (1978) Predicting rainfall erosion losses-a guide to conservation planning. USDA, Agriculture Handbook 537, Washington DC, USA.