Field data need to be collected to test wind erosion models under a broad range of climate, soil, and management conditions. The objective of this study was to test the USDAARS Wind Erosion Prediction System (WEPS) for a field with winter wheat plants in a modest amount of flat residue. A 600 m by 415 m field was selected near Burlington, CO, USA. Big Spring Number Eight (BSNE) samplers were us...

The freeze-thaw (FT) erosion is a type of soil erosion like water erosion and wind erosion. Limited by many factors, the grading evaluation of soil FT erosion quantities is not well studied. Based on the comprehensive analysis of the evaluation indices of soil FT erosion, we for the first time utilized the sensitivity of microwave remote sensing technology to soil moisture for identification of...

Coastal dunes protect low lying coastal areas against the sea. Extreme waves and water levels during severe storms may cause breaching of the dunes. Consequently, serious damage due to flooding and direct wave attack could occur, resulting in loss of life and property. Proper coastal management implies that reinforcement measures will be taken if the actual safety level does not meet the agreed...

In this review, an extensive inventory in the literature of water erosion modelling from a geospatial point of view has been conducted. Concepts of scale, spatiality and complexity are clarified in a theoretical background. Spatial scale, temporal scale and spatial methodologies have been addressed as the most determining geospatial properties underlying water erosion modelling. Use of GIS has ...

gully erosion constitutes a major problem in natural resources management and soil conservation, which causes severe land degradation in arid and semi-arid areas. therefore, determination of gully prone area and identification of gully conditioning factors can help to managers and decision makers to reduce the hazard of gully erosion. the aim of this study is to predictthe gully erosion suscept...

on account of some complexities such as fluid-structure interaction and extra-large deformation problems, complete simulation of abrasive water jet cutting process is very hard. the main goal of this paper is to overcome these difficulties through comprehensive simulation in ls-dyna commercial software. for this purpose the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (sph) and arbitrary lagrangian eulerian...

Astract: This paper shows how recent situation of soil erosion evaluation and prediction on a regional scale based on the techniques of spatial information. The study, which was carried out in central China, identified sediment discharge, precipitation, soil composition, gully density and land use as erosion factors at the regional level. It showed that soil erosion can be assessed and predicte...

Agricultural soil loss and deposition in aquatic ecosystems is a problem that impairs water quality worldwide and is costly to agriculture and food supplies. In the US, for example, billions of dollars have subsidized soil and water conservation practices in agricultural landscapes over the past decades. We used paleolimnological methods to reconstruct trends in sedimentation related to human-i...