Search Results - "Mark A. Nearing"

Projected climate change impacts in rainfall erosivity over Brazil by Almagro, André, Oliveira, Paulo Tarso S., Nearing, Mark A., Hagemann, Stefan

“…The impacts of climate change on soil erosion may bring serious economic, social and environmental problems. However, few studies have investigated these…”
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Trends in water balance components across the Brazilian Cerrado by Oliveira, Paulo Tarso S., Nearing, Mark A., Moran, M. Susan, Goodrich, David C., Wendland, Edson, Gupta, Hoshin V.

“…We assess the water balance of the Brazilian Cerrado based on remotely sensed estimates of precipitation (TRMM), evapotranspiration (MOD16), and terrestrial…”
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Soil erosion and runoff in different vegetation patches from semiarid Central Mexico by Vásquez-Méndez, Rebeca, Ventura-Ramos, Eusebio, Oleschko, Klaudia, Hernández-Sandoval, Luis, Parrot, Jean-Francois, Nearing, Mark A.

“…Vegetation patches in arid and semiarid areas are important in the regulation of surface hydrological processes. Canopy and ground covers developed in these…”
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Rangeland hydrology and erosion model (RHEM) enhancements for applications on disturbed rangelands by Al‐Hamdan, Osama Z, Hernandez, Mariano, Pierson, Frederick B, Nearing, Mark A, Williams, C. Jason, Stone, Jeffrey J, Boll, Jan, Weltz, Mark A

“…The rangeland hydrology and erosion model (RHEM) is a new process‐based model developed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service. RHEM was initially developed…”
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Scale effect in USLE and WEPP application for soil erosion computation from three Sicilian basins by Amore, Elena, Modica, Carlo, Nearing, Mark A, Santoro, Vincenza C

“…Accurate estimation of soil erosion due to water is very important in several environmental contexts, such as the assessment of potential soil loss from…”
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Natural and anthropogenic rates of soil erosion by Mark A. Nearing, Yun Xie, Baoyuan Liu, Yu Ye

“…Regions of land that are brought into crop production from native vegetation typically undergo a period of soil erosion instability, and long term erosion…”
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Orders of magnitude increase in soil erosion associated with land use change from native to cultivated vegetation in a Brazilian savannah environment by Oliveira, Paulo Tarso S., Nearing, Mark A., Wendland, Edson

“…The Brazilian savanna (cerrado) is a large and important economic and environmental region that is experiencing significant loss of its natural landscapes due…”
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Models for estimating daily rainfall erosivity in China by Xie, Yun, Yin, Shui-qing, Liu, Bao-yuan, Nearing, Mark A., Zhao, Ying

“…•Three models estimating erosivity by daily rainfall are calibrated and validated.•The models effectively estimate average annual, yearly and half-month…”
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Extreme precipitation patterns and reductions of terrestrial ecosystem production across biomes by Zhang, Yongguang, Susan Moran, M., Nearing, Mark A., Ponce Campos, Guillermo E., Huete, Alfredo R., Buda, Anthony R., Bosch, David D., Gunter, Stacey A., Kitchen, Stanley G., Henry McNab, W., Morgan, Jack A., McClaran, Mitchel P., Montoya, Diane S., Peters, Debra P.C., Starks, Patrick J.

“…Precipitation regimes are predicted to shift to more extreme patterns that are characterized by more heavy rainfall events and longer dry intervals, yet their…”
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Variability in Soil Erosion Data from Replicated Plots by Nearing, Mark A., Govers, Gerard, Norton, L. Darrell

“…Understanding and quantifying the large, unexplained variability in soil erosion data are critical for advancing erosion science, evaluating soil erosion…”
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Testing a theoretical resistance law for overland flow on a stony hillslope by Nicosia, Alessio, Di Stefano, Costanza, Pampalone, Vincenzo, Palmeri, Vincenzo, Ferro, Vito, Nearing, Mark A.

“…Overland flow, sediments, and nutrients transported in runoff are important processes involved in soil erosion and water pollution. Modelling transport of…”
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Digital close range photogrammetry for measurement of soil erosion by Rieke-Zapp, Dirk H., Nearing, Mark A.

“…Many of the processes involved in soil erosion have dimensions on the millimetre scale. Modelling and quantification of such processes require information on…”
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Rainfall erosivity in Brazil: A review by Oliveira, Paulo Tarso Sanches, Wendland, Edson, Nearing, Mark A.

“…In this paper, we review the erosivity studies conducted in Brazil to verify the quality and representativeness of the results generated and to provide a…”
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Long-term, process-based, continuous simulations for a small, nested rangeland watershed near Tombstone, AZ (USA): Extending model validity to include soil redistribution by Zhang, Han, Renschler, Chris S., Nichols, Mary H., Nearing, Mark A.

“…Soil or sediment redistribution prediction along hillslopes and within small watersheds is considered to be a great challenge for the application of watershed…”
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Testing a new rill flow resistance approach using the Water Erosion Prediction Project experimental database by Nicosia, Alessio, Di Stefano, Costanza, Pampalone, Vincenzo, Palmeri, Vincenzo, Ferro, Vito, Nearing, Mark A.

“…In this paper, a recently theoretically deduced rill flow resistance equation, based on a power‐velocity profile, was tested using the Water Erosion Prediction…”
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Preface to special section on Fifty Years of Research and Data Collection: U.S. Department of Agriculture Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed by Moran, M.S, Emmerich, W.E, Goodrich, D.C, Heilman, P, Holifield Collins, C.D, Keefer, T.O, Nearing, M.A, Nichols, M.H, Renard, K.G, Scott, R.L

“…This special section of Water Resources Research and the associated Web site ( http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/dap/) describe 50 years of data collection and the…”
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Velocities of shallow overland flow on semiarid hillslopes by Polyakov, Viktor, Nearing, Mark A., Stone, Jeffry

“…A series of 188 rainfall plot simulations was conducted on grass, shrub, oak savanna, and juniper sites in Arizona and Nevada. A total of 897 flow velocity…”
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Suspended sediment transport at the instantaneous and event time scales in semiarid watersheds of southeastern Arizona, USA by Gao, Peng, Nearing, Mark A., Commons, Michael

“…We investigated the high variability of suspended sediment transport in 16 watersheds of Walnut Gulch, southeastern Arizona, USA that were distinguished at…”
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Assessing phenological change in China from 1982 to 2006 using AVHRR imagery by Wei, Haiyan, Heilman, Philip, Qi, Jiaguo, Nearing, Mark A, Gu, Zhihui, Zhang, Yongguang

“…Long-term trends in vegetation phenology indicate ecosystem change due to the combined impacts of human activities and climate. In this study we used 1982 to…”
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Wind erosion research in China: past, present and future by Shi, Peijun, Yan, Ping, Yuan, Yi, Nearing, Mark A.

“…Wind erosion is one of the most important processes associated with land degradation and desertification in the arid, semi-arid and portions of the subhumid…”
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