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EROSION PROCESS
AND MONITORING
Gandhiv Kafle
Lecturer, IOF, Hetauda
www.gandhiv.co.cc
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Outline
• Erosivity
• Erodibility
• Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE)
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• R- erosivity factor
• K- erodibility factor
• L- slope length factor
• S- slope steepness factor
• C- cover-management factor
• P- supporting practices factor
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Example: EROSIVITY - R
Measure of erosivity of climate at a location in USA
Las Vegas, NV 8
Phoenix, AZ 22
Denver, CO 40
Syracuse, NY 80
Minneapolis, MN 110
Chicago, IL 140
Richmond, VA 200
St. Louis, MO 210
Dallas, TX 275
Birmingham, AL 350
Charleston, SC 400
New Orleans, LA 700
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Nomograph
• Nomograph is used to measure the erodibility factor of the
soil.
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Changes in RUSLE
• R factor • K factor
• RUSLE computes a • Adjusted to account for
correction to R to reflect seasonal changes such
the effect of raindrop as freezing and thawing,
impact for flat slopes soil moisture, and soil
striking water ponded on consolidation.
the surface. • USLE was based on soil
texture, organic-matter
content, permeability,
and other factors
inherent to soil type.
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• LS factor
• Refines USLE by
assigning new
calculations based on
the ratio of rill to
interrill erosion, and
accommodates
complex slopes.
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C factor
• RUSLE
• Uses the subfactors: prior
• USLE
land use, canopy cover,
• Based on cropping surface cover, surface
sequence, surface roughness, and soil
residue, surface moisture.
roughness, and • RUSLE provides improved
canopy cover, with are estimates of soil loss
weighted by the changes as they occur
throughout the year,
percentage of erosive especially relating to
rainfall during the six surface and near-surface
crop stages. residue and the effects of
climate on residue
decomposition.
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P factor
• USLE • RUSLE
• Based on installation of • P factor values are based
practices that slow runoff on hydrologic soil groups,
and thus reduce soil slope, row grade, ridge
movement. • height, and the 10-year
single storm erosion index
value.
• RUSLE computes the
effect of strip cropping
based on the transport
capacity of flow in dense
strips relative to the
amount of sediment
reaching the strip.
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