A simple approach to soil loss prediction: a revised Morgan-Morgan-Finney model

被引:204
作者
Morgan, RPC [1 ]
机构
[1] Cranfield Univ, Inst Water & Environm, Bedford MK45 4DT, England
关键词
soil erosion; sediment yield; erosion modelling;
D O I
10.1016/S0341-8162(00)00171-5
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
A revised version of the Morgan-Morgan-Finney model for prediction of annual soil loss by water is presented. Changes have been made to the way soil particle detachment by raindrop impact is simulated, which now takes account of plant canopy height and leaf drainage, and a component has been added for soil particle detachment by flow. When tested against the same data set used to validate the original version at the erosion plot scale, predictions made with the revised model gave slopes of a reduced major-axis regression line closer to 1.0 when compared with measured values. The coefficient of efficiency, for sites with measured runoff and soil loss, increased from 0.54 to 0.65. When applied to a new data set for erosion plots in Denmark, Spain, Greece and Nepal, very high coefficients of efficiency of 0.94 for runoff and 0.84 for soil loss were obtained. The revised version was applied to two small catchments by dividing them into land elements and routing annual runoff and sediment production over the land surface from one element to another. The results indicate that, when used in this way, the model provides useful information on the source areas of sediment, sediment delivery to streams and annual sediment yield. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:305 / 322
页数:18
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