Field Measurement of Soil Erosion and RunoffExperimental design; Avoid before and after experiments statistics; Anomalous results and extrapolation; Reconnaissance methods; Advantages; Accuracy; Measuring changes of surface level; Volumetric measurements; Field plots; When to use runoff plots; Statistical design;Types of runoff plots; Construction; Operation; Streamflow; Volumetric methods; Measuring flumes; Water-level recorders; Sediment transport; Estimating suspended loan; Estimating bed load; Estimating from deposition in reservoirs; Rainfall simulators; Objectives and applications; Types of simulator; Estimating from models; Estimating runoff; Estimating soil loss; Empirical models for estimating soil loss; Erosion parameters. |
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Agricultural bedload bottle calculated calibration catchment channel Chapter collecting trough cropping cross-section current meter curve depth of flow device discharge divisor downstream drop effect equation eroded Erosion and Sediment example experimental factors field gradient gully H flume hydraulic radius hydrological installed intensity kinetic energy maximum measured metres Microplots mm/h models Nigeria nomograph nozzle operation Parshall flume pipe plot boundaries possible rain rainfall simulators rate of flow rate of runoff ratio records replications reservoir rill rotating runoff and soil runoff curve runoff plots sampler sampling Sediment Transport shown in Figure shown in Plate Silsoe simple slope slot small plots Soil and Water Soil Conservation Soil Conservation Service soil erosion soil loss soil surface Sri Lanka storm stream studies surface runoff Table Terminal velocity terraces treatment tropical USDA-SCS USLE V-notch values variation velocity of flow velocity/area method Wallingford watershed weir Zimbabwe