Abstract Following the results of a study carried out for the neighbouring Sicilian region, this paper reports a study of the applicability of the annual value, F , of the Arnouldus index to represent the erosion risk in Calabrian region. Firstly, By using 214 values of the mean annual value of the erosivity index, FF, and a Kriging interpolation method, an isoerosivity map is plotted. Then, in...

A general procedure is presented for calibrating a model for rainfall erosivity based on daily rainfall. The approach is based on probability distributions of wet-day precipitation amount and monthly erosivities which are inferred from published data summaries. The calibrated model was tested by comparisons with erosivities computed from hourly precipitation data. Model results were generally c...

In this paper, using Sicilian and Australian rainfall intensity data, a comparison between different estimators (modified Fournier index F, FF index) of the rainfall erosivity factor in the USLE was made. The relationship between the modified Fournier index and the mean annual rainfall, P, was theoretically derived. The K constant, linking the FF index and P, and its cumulative distribution fun...