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This article reports the results of a field investigation aimed at comparing and verifying the agreement between two methods measuring rill morphological characteristics at the Masse experimental area. At first, the data obtained both with a manual method (profilometer) and with a Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) were compared. The comparison showed that the manual measurements underestimate the width...
Rainfall erosion is a complex process and good understanding of the mechanisms involved is necessary if inappropriate designs and procedures are not unwittingly used in rainfall erosion experiments. Numerous runoff and soil loss plots of various sizes have been installed in many parts of the world. It is essential that on any eroding surface water flows across the surface without interference from...
Investigating the erosion processes of freeze–thaw-affected soils caused by concentrated snow/glacier meltwater flow can be challenging. Experimental data can help improve our understanding and modeling of the phenomenon. Laboratory experiments were conducted to assess the effects of slope gradient and flow rate on soil erosion by concentrated meltwater flow over thawed and non-frozen soil surfaces...
Soil erosion is still a serious concern on the Loess Plateau of China. Cornstalk buffer strips are not commonly utilized for erosion control on the Loess Plateau, and there is little hydrodynamic understanding of this soil erosion control practice. A simulated rainfall experiment was designed to investigate how a cornstalk buffer strip affected soil erosion and to enhance the hydrodynamic understanding...
In this paper the results of a plot experiment on rill erosion are reported. The rill network, manually incised on the soil and further shaped by a clear inflow discharge, was surveyed using the three-dimensional photo-reconstruction (3D-PR) technique which allows to obtain a digital terrain model (DTM) by a large series of oblique images of the channel from consumer un-calibrated and non-metric cameras...
Wetting rate is one of the major factors determining the magnitude of slaking force in soils. Differences in wetting rate result in varying degrees of soil aggregate breakdown that alters the distribution of particle sizes in sediment. The objective of the present study was to determine how various wetting rates affected soil aggregate breakdown and soil fraction distribution in a contour ridge system...
Flow velocity is fundamental in calculating related parameters of physical soil erosion models. It has been well known that rill flow velocity varies with developing rill form, which complicates and impedes the development of soil erosion models. In filed, rainfall erosion frequently occurs with pre-existing rills not damaged by tillage practices. However, the rill flow velocity in this case has received...
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