TY - JOUR
T1 - CLIGEN as a weather generator for RUSLE2
AU - Kinnell, P. I.A.
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - RUSLE2 is a rainfall erosion model that, in its standard mode, predicts long term soil losses as an aid to making decisions related to soil conservation in the USA. In recent times, RUSLE2 has developed a capacity to predict event soil losses using user entered data for event rain and EI30. WEPP is a more process based model which uses a stochastic weather generator, CLIGEN, to generate events that are stochastically distributed in time. CLIGEN does not estimate event EI30 values for the rainfall events it generates but it is possible to do so through use of erosivity densities (EI30 per unit quantity of rainfall) data available in RUSLE2. This enables CLIGEN to be used as a climate generator for RUSLE2 and provides the capacity to use RUSLE2 in roles similar to the ones where WEPP is being applied.
AB - RUSLE2 is a rainfall erosion model that, in its standard mode, predicts long term soil losses as an aid to making decisions related to soil conservation in the USA. In recent times, RUSLE2 has developed a capacity to predict event soil losses using user entered data for event rain and EI30. WEPP is a more process based model which uses a stochastic weather generator, CLIGEN, to generate events that are stochastically distributed in time. CLIGEN does not estimate event EI30 values for the rainfall events it generates but it is possible to do so through use of erosivity densities (EI30 per unit quantity of rainfall) data available in RUSLE2. This enables CLIGEN to be used as a climate generator for RUSLE2 and provides the capacity to use RUSLE2 in roles similar to the ones where WEPP is being applied.
KW - Predicting event soil loss
KW - Soil loss prediction
KW - Stochastic weather generator
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053134293&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/cligen-weather-generator-rusle2
U2 - 10.1016/j.catena.2018.09.016
DO - 10.1016/j.catena.2018.09.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053134293
SN - 0341-8162
VL - 172
SP - 877
EP - 880
JO - Catena
JF - Catena
ER -