Field Measurement of Soil Erosion and Runoff, Issue 68"The main purpose of this Soils Bulletin is to suggest simple methods and techniques which might be used by people working in the field who are not employed to carry out research, but do have a need for information on runoff and erosion"--Foreword. |
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amount average bedload bottle calculated calibration catchment catchpits channel Cipolletti cropping cross-section current meter curve depth of flow device divisor downstream effect eroded erosion pins estimating soil loss example experimental factors field gully H flume hydrological installed intensity kinetic energy Laws and Parsons measurements metres millimetres mm/h models Nigeria nomograph notch nozzle operate outwash fan Parshall flume plot boundaries possible profile meter rain rainfall simulators rate of flow ratio records relationship reliable reservoir rill rotating runoff curve runoff plots sampler sampling sediment concentration shown in Figure Silsoe simple SLEMSA slope slot small plots Soil Conservation Soil Conservation Service soil erosion soil surface spray storm stream streamflow studies submergence surface level surface runoff Table tanks Terminal velocity terraces test plot treatment tropical USLE usually V-notch values variables variation velocity velocity/area method Wallingford watershed weir width Zimbabwe Π Π