Specific rainfall characteristics vary among regions and their erosion potential must be known for the planning of agricultural and civil engineering activities. For Rio Grande (RS, Brazil), the erosivity and relationships with the precipitation and rainfall coefficient, rainfall hydrologic patterns and return period were determined based on rainfall data of 23 years. For each erosive rainfall the segments of the rainfall chart with the same intensity were separated together and the data registered in worksheets. The mean monthly and annual […]

Rainfall erosivity represents the potential of rainfall causing soil erosion. The EI30 index is a method to determine rainfall erosivity and is calculated by the product of the total kinetic energy of rainfall and the maximum intensity in 30 min. The objective of this study was to calculate rainfall erosivity in Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil, for practical applications in soil conservation, based on daily rainfall charts. For each rainfall chart, segments with the same intensity were separated, registered in worksheets, digitalized and […]

The planning of agricultural and civil engineering activities must be based on knowledge of rainfall erosion potential. For Quarai, RS, Brazil, the rainfall erosivity and its relationship with precipitation and rainfall coefficient, rainfall patterns and rainfall return period were determined. Daily rainfall data from the 1966-2003 period were used. For each erosive rainfall the segments of the rainfall chart with the same intensity were separated and the data recorded in a worksheet. The mean precipitation and rainfall patterns were estimated, […]

The correlation between the erosivity index EI30 and the rainfall coefficient (Rc) for the period of 1962 to 1981, in Fortaleza (CE), was evaluated to analyze the feasibility of the Rc use to update erosivity values from 1982 to 2000 in this county. An equation that could be used to estimate erosivity in other locations of the coastal region of Ceará State, where there are no rain gauge charts available, was a second aim. A high correlation coefficient (r = […]

Rainfall erosivity at Teodoro Sampaio was studied through methodology proposed by Wischmeier and Smith (1958). A set of 812 erosive individual rains was selected, from a continuum series of nineteen years of nonrecording rain gauge data, according to Wischimeier (1959), Wischmeier and Smith (1978) and Cabeda (1976) and proposed with changes by Carvalho (1987). All the selected rains were computed by the package of Cataneo et al. (1982). The rainfall erosivity factor computed was 7172 MJ mm ha-1 h-1 y-1, […]