Uwe Pidoto (Author), Nejc Bezak (Author), Hannes Müller-Thomy (Author), Bora Shehu (Author), Ana Claudia Callau-Beyer (Author), Katarina Kavčič (Author), Uwe Haberlandt (Author)

Abstract

Rainfall erosivity values are required for soil erosion prediction. To calculate the mean annual rainfall erosivity (R), long-term high-resolution observed rainfall data are required, which are often not available. To overcome the issue of limited data availability in space and time, four methods were employed and evaluated: direct regionalisation of R, regionalisation of 5 min rainfall, disaggregation of daily rainfall into 5 min time steps, and a regionalised stochastic rainfall model. The impact of station density is considered for each of the methods. The study is carried out using 159 recording and 150 non-recording (daily) rainfall stations in and around the federal state of Lower Saxony, Germany. In addition, the minimum record length necessary to adequately estimate R was investigated. Results show that the direct regionalisation of mean annual erosivity is best in terms of both relative bias and relative root mean square error (RMSE), followed by the regionalisation of the 5 min rainfall data, which yields better results than the rainfall generation models, namely an alternating renewal model (ARM) and a multiplicative cascade model. However, a key advantage of using regionalised rainfall models is the ability to generate time series that can be used for the estimation of the erosive event characteristics. This is not possible if regionalising only R. Using the stochastic ARM, it was assessed that more than 60 years of data are needed in most cases to reach a stable estimate of annual rainfall erosivity. Moreover, the temporal resolution of measuring devices was found to have a significant effect on R, with coarser temporal resolution leading to a higher relative bias.

Keywords

generator padavin;erozivnost padavin;nemerjene lokacije;regionalizacija;rainfall generator;rainfall erosivity;ungauged site;regionalization;

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Language: English
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Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization: UL FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
UDC: 556.1
COBISS: 120255235 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 2196-632X
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Secondary language: Slovenian
Secondary keywords: generator padavin;erozivnost padavin;nemerjene lokacije;regionalizacija;
Type (COBISS): Article
Pages: Str. 851-863
Volume: ǂLetn. ǂ10
Issue: ǂšt. ǂ4
Chronology: 2022
DOI: 10.5194/esurf-10-851-2022
ID: 16534302