The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

Rainfall erosivity is the capability of rainfall to cause soil loss from hillslopes by water.
Modern definitions of rainfall erosivity began with the development of the Universal Soil Loss …

The importance of the inherent resistance of soil to erosional processes, or soil erodibility, is
generally recognized in hillslope and fluvial geomorphology, but the full implications of the …

Knowledge of the relationship between rainfall intensity and kinetic energy and its variations
in time and space is important for erosion prediction. However, between studies …

Small-scale portable rainfall simulators are an essential research tool for investigating the
process dynamics of soil erosion and surface hydrology. There is no standardisation of …

Soil erosion by water is one of the most severe soil degradation processes. Splash erosion
is the initial stage of soil erosion by water, resulting from the destructive force of rain drops …

Soil erodibility and rainfall erosivity are two important physical factors that affect the
magnitude of soil erosion. The predominant processes that determine erosion are infiltration …

The knowledge of the rainfall drop size distribution (DSD) at the land surface is essential for
understanding precipitation mechanisms affecting soil erosion processes. Rainfall erosivity …

Splash is an important process in interrill erosion because it produces movement of soil
fragments. However, this process is technically difficult to measure and little is known about …

Publisher Summary Rainfall erosion is a serious problem of farmland over a large part of the
world. It is, particularly, acute on gently to steeply sloping land of both humid and semiarid …