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- Title
Coupled Thorens and Soil Conservation Service Models for Soil Erosion Assessment in a Loess Plateau Watershed, China.
- Authors
Li, Changjia; Lu, Tong; Wang, Shuai; Xu, Jiren
- Abstract
Assessing soil erosion in China's severely eroded Loess Plateau is urgently needed but is usually limited by suitable erosion models and long-term field measurements. In this study, we coupled the Thorens and Soil Conservation Service (SCS) models to evaluate runoff and sediment yield during the 1980s and 2010s in the Xiaolihe watershed on the Loess Plateau. Results showed the proposed model framework had a satisfactory performance in modelling spatially distributed runoff and sediment yield. The Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), percent bias (PBIAS) and the root mean square error-measured standard deviation ratio (RSR) were 0.93, 4.42% and 0.27 for monthly runoff; and 0.31, 62.31% and 0.82 for monthly sediment yield. The effects of land use changes on runoff and sediment yield were well captured by the SCS and Thorens models. The proposed modelling framework is distributed with a simple structure, requires relatively little data that can be obtained from public datasets, and can be used to predict runoff and sediment yield in other similar ungagged or poorly monitored watersheds. This work has important implications for runoff and erosion assessment in other arid and semi-arid regions, to derive runoff and erosion rates across large areas with scarce field measurements.
- Subjects
CHINA; UNITED States. Natural Resources Conservation Service; SOIL conservation; EROSION; SOIL erosion; WATERSHEDS; ROOT-mean-squares; RUNOFF models; ARID regions
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 3, p803
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs15030803