Biancana badlands are peculiar landforms in the Basilicata region of Italy resulting from local combination geological, geomorphological, and climatic settings. The evolution mainly depends on slope erosion, which is controlled by angle, exposure, vegetation its interactions with insolation, rain, wind. Multi-temporal, detailed, high-resolution surveys have led researchers to assess changes slo...

A methodology was developed to estimate quantities of crop residues that can be removed while maintaining rain or wind erosion at less than or equal to the tolerable soil-loss level. Six corn and wheat rotations in the 10 largest corn-producing states were analyzed. Residue removal rates for each rotation were evaluated for conventional, mulch/reduced, and no-till field operations. The analyses...

This paper proposes a paradigm shift in the numerical simulation approach to predict rain erosion damage on wind turbine blades, given blade geometry, its coating material, and atmospheric conditions (wind rain) expected at installation site. Contrary what has been done so far, simulations (flow field particle tracking) are used not study specific operating condition but build large database of...

A2Dvideo disdrometer (2DVD) probewas used to gather detailed dropmeasurements over a 770-min rain event. Accumulated totals of the rainfall and of the number of drops for each square centimeter showed persistent, significant correlated structures across the approximately 11 cm3 11 cm grid of the 2DVD. This is surprising because larger-scale studies suggest that the values in each square centime...

We use petrographic and mineralogical data on modern sediments to investigate erosion patterns in the Marsyandi basin of the central Himalaya, a privileged natural laboratory in which a series of multidisciplinary geomorphological, sedimentological, geochemical and geochronological studies have been recently carried out to unravel the interrelationships between tectonic, climatic and sedimentar...

To improve wind erosion model calculations across several spatial and temporal scales simultaneously, there is a requirement for a noninvasive approach that can be used rapidly to assess changes in the compositional and structural nature of a soil surface in time and space. Remote sensing allows consideration of the processes controlling erodibility on the same spatial continuum to avoid time-c...

ROONEY, J.J.B., and FLETCHER, C.H. III, 2004. Shoreline change and Pacific climatic oscillations in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. Journal of Coastal Research, 21(0), 000–000. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Increasing demands on coastal areas require enhanced understanding of coastal erosion hazards. Here we analyze a 5-km segment of the Kihei coastline (Maui, Hawaii) centered on an area of c...

Raindrops disperse large soil aggregates into smaller particles, which can clog soil pores, cause soil crusting, reduce rainfall infiltration and increase soil loss. It was found that natural polymer derivatives were effective in improving soil physical properties and decreasing soil erosion on an experimental loess hillslope. This study investigated the effect of new natural polymer derivative...

The paper contains data about the destructive effects of gully erosion on the environment. It provides general information about the gully erosion in several countries around the world including Romania and is considered a case study for a river basin located in the Semenic Mountains (Bârzava drainage area). The case study is based on the following assumptions: the presence of different types o...