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Comment on “Raindrop‐Induced Soil Detachment and Sediment Transport from Interrill Areas”
Author(s) -
Kinnell P.I.A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
soil science society of america journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1435-0661
pISSN - 0361-5995
DOI - 10.2136/sssaj1996.03615995006000030039x
Subject(s) - citation , sediment , sediment transport , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , computer science , library science , geology , geotechnical engineering , geomorphology
A=* iG/Sf [1] where D\ is the interrill delivery rate (mass per unit area per unit time), k\ is an estimate of interrill credibility (mass per unit area per unit time), Q is runoff rate (depth per unit time), 7 is rainfall intensity (depth per unit time), and Sf is a factor dependent on slope gradient, which results from Kinnell (1993). They later remarked that exclusion of raindrop energy from the basic detachment and transport model propagates error while extrapolating soil credibility data collected from artificial rainfall into natural rainstorms and among seasonally and physiographically variable rainstorms. I cannot help but agree with this comment. However, in my paper (Kinnell, 1993), there was discussion about the fact that, for a rain with a given characteristic (r) impacting flow over soil with characteristics (s), the sediment discharge rate (qs, mass per unit width of flow per unit time) was given by