SurfMin: rainfall stimulation

OSM Library Number: 487 Date to NTIS: 04/05/90

NTIS Accession No: PB90-202771/AS NTIS List Price: 23.00

CFR Citation: 30 CFR 816.45

Title of Report:

COMPREHENSIVE LITERATURE REVIEW OF RAINFALL SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY AND OF THEIR

APPLICATION TO SOIL ERODIBILITY EVALUATION (1981). 103 pp.

Performing Organization Name and Address:

Simons, Li & Associates, Inc., Fort Collins, CO 80522

Type of Report: Comprehensive Literature Review

Abstract:

Report presents rainfall simulation techniques; identifies and documents

disadvantages of field research over laboratory research; substantiates proposed

approach and eliminates possible controversy on experimental design; presents

concise review of over 20 years of literature on rainfall simulation; and

provides basis for examination and/or justification of conclusions to be drawn

from current study.

Keywords:

RAINFALL SIMULATION

SOIL ERODIBILITY

K FACTOR

Author(s):

Li, Ruh-Ming

Peterson, Mark R.

Schall, James D.

Simons, Daryl B.