Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6505-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-6505-2018
Research article
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14 Dec 2018
Research article |  | 14 Dec 2018

Temporal- and spatial-scale and positional effects on rain erosivity derived from point-scale and contiguous rain data

Franziska K. Fischer, Tanja Winterrath, and Karl Auerswald

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The potential of rain to cause soil erosion by runoff is called rain erosivity. Rain erosivity is highly variable in space and time even over distances of less than 1 km. Contiguously measured radar rain data depict for the first time this spatio-temporal variation, but scaling factors are required to account for differences in spatial and temporal resolution compared to rain gauge data. These scaling factors were obtained from more than 2 million erosive events.