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QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF SEDIMENT DELIVERY RATIOS 1
Author(s) -
Khanbilvardi R. M.,
Rogowski A. S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1984.tb04794.x
Subject(s) - universal soil loss equation , sediment , erosion , environmental science , deposition (geology) , hydrology (agriculture) , yield (engineering) , storm , wepp , soil loss , soil science , geology , soil conservation , geography , geotechnical engineering , geomorphology , oceanography , agriculture , materials science , archaeology , metallurgy
Summary Ability to adequately estimate sediment yield is an important step in dealing effectively with soil erosion problems. Predictions of sediment yield made using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) with different forms of sediment delivery ratio (SDR) are compared with those made by Modified USLE (MUSLE) and a fundamentally derived Erosion‐Deposition Model (EDM). The USLE and USLE with SDR are poor predictors of sediment yield for individual storms compared to the MUSLE and EDM. Although MUSLE gave better results than USLE it showed somewhat more scatter of data points than the recently developed EDM.