Effect of texture, rainfall and slope on rainfall interrill sediment transport

Abstract

Experiments were conducted with rainfall intensities of 45.0 and 140.0 mm/hr at slopes of 2, 9 and 20%. Regression models for rain-intensity contribution to unit sediment transport capacity Y were developed including median particle diameter X of sediment as an additional independent variable. The constants of power relationships of the form Y=a Xb were found to vary with the median particle diameter of the soil. -from Authors