rainfall erosivity is the ability of rainfall to detach the soil particles. this study was conducted to evaluate spatial variability of rainfall erosivity indices in khouzestan province. the point data of indices (ei30, aim, ke>1 and onchev indices) in 74 stations were used to generate spatial erosivity maps through deterministic and geostatistical interpolation methods (radial basis functions,...

Cop Abstract: Event sediment transport and yield were studied for 45 events in the upstream part of the 260 km agricultural Koga catchment that drains to an irrigation reservoir. Discharge and turbidity data were collected over a period of more than a year, accompanied by grab sampling. Turbidity was very well correlated with the sediment concentrations from the samples (r = 0.99), which allowe...

by determining relative importance and contributions of erosion types to sediment yield, erosion susceptible areas in a watershed will be identified, and sediment control and soil conservation projects can be focused on that areas. because of many problems associated with traditional procedures for identifying sediment sources, fingerprinting techniques, based on physical, chemical and organic ...

Soil erosion-associated sedimentation has become a significant global threat to sustainable land and water resources management. Semi-arid regions that characterise much of southern Africa are particularly at risk due extreme hydrological regimes sparse vegetative cover. This study aims address the need for an erosion sediment delivery model successfully incorporates our conceptual understandin...

Sediment toxicity tests are frequently used to assess sediment quality along the west coast of North America. However, the use of sediment toxicity information to assist in the development of management actions (e.g., source control, sediment remediation) is limited by the difficulty of determining which contaminants are responsible for the toxic effects. An investigative process known as a Tox...

This Technical Note (TN) describes herein an approach to estimating the amount of sediment that passes through an estuary inlet in the Gulf of Mexico in terms of sediment yield per year. Estimated values for the Weeks Bay estuary and the approach taken to obtain the values are provided as guidance for other estuaries. The TN is in direct support of the Mississippi State University lead project ...

The present study describes entrainment characteristics of bed material into debris flow, based on flume tests, numerical and dimensional analyses. Flume tests are conducted to investigate influences of bed sediment size on erosion rate by supplying debris flows having unsaturated sediment concentration over erodible beds. Experimental results show that the erosion rate decreases monotonically ...

Spatial variations in composition of marine microbial communities and its causes have largely been disclosed in studies comprising rather large environmental and spatial differences. In the present study, we explored if a moderate but temporally permanent climatic division within a contiguous arctic shelf seafloor was traceable in the diversity patterns of its bacterial and archaeal communities...