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Laboratory and Field Protocol for Estimating Sheet Erosion Rates from Dendrogeomorphology
Published on: January 7, 2019
An assessment of tropical cyclones rainfall erosivity for Taiwan
Jayalakshmi Janapati1, Balaji Kumar Seela1,2, Pay-Liam Lin3,4
1Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Central University, Jhong-Li Region, Tao-Yuan City, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Rainfall erosivity (or water erosion) has severe implications on agriculture, water, and land use management. Though, there were Rainfall erosivity studies on regional and global scale, tropical cyclones' Rainfall erosivity is poorly assessed and have not been documented for one of the most cyclones affecting regions of the world like Taiwan. Here, using 15-years of raindrop size distributions (RSD) and 60-years of hourly rain gauges data, we estimated cyclones (also called typhoons) rainfall erosivity over Taiwan, and establish that typhoons' mean rainfall erosivity is higher than the global mean rainfall erosivity. Moreover, regional variability of typhoons rainfall erosivity showed an increasing pattern from north to south (Taipei to Pingtung), with relatively higher values over eastern and southern parts of Taiwan. The annual mean erosivity of typhoons rainfall showed raising trends over eastern and southern Taiwan during 1958-2017. Our results provide an insight in assessing the land use and agricultural management for Taiwan.
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