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Simulation of the size distribution and erosivity of raindrops and throughfall drops

✍ Scribed by C. Jane Brandt

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
812 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0360-1269

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✦ Synopsis

This paper presents a model that simulates the size distribution and erosivity of raindrops and throughfall drops. It utilizes existing models of rainfall drop size distribution and fall velocity and combines them with newly collated evidence of throughfall drop size distributions. A sensitivity analysis reveals that the model is sensitive to parameters that are easily measured or estimated: rainfall intensity, the mean volume drop diameter of the intercepted throughfall, canopy cover, and canopy height.

The results of the model may be used at two levels. Firstly, to calculate specifically the size and fall velocity of individual drops, parameters that are needed in studies examining the response of soil surfaces to forces applied by rainfall. Secondly, to produce erosivity indices, based on rainfall intensity but which take account of the effects of a vegetation canopy. The paper shows that while the kinetic energy of rainfall (E(O), J mm-' m-*) may be calculated from an equation of the familiar form:

the kinetic energy of throughfall under any canopy may be calculated by combining this equation with another that relates the energy of drops under a 100 per cent canopy cover (E(IO0)) and the canopy height: E(100) = 15.8 JHEIGHT (m) -5.87

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