Abstract: Soil loss in our environment is a very serious issue and has caused great damage to business activities. It poses serious hazard to properties. Many models and theories have investigated soil loss in various perspectives, while Empirical Soil Loss Regression Model (ESLRM) had approached it using empirical methods. This study focuses on the effect of those experimental parameters used or employed in (ESLRM). The parameters includes rainfall intensity I, Slope of the catchment S, Duration of the rainfall D, Soil density,, size of catchment area A, Organic content, O and Clay content of the soil C. From the model equation, intensity, slope, duration, density and Area represent the erosive effect in soil loss operation with their power coefficient being positive, while organic content and clay content of the soil represent the erodibility component of soil loss operation with negative sign in their.......
Key words: ESLRM, Calibration, Catchment, Clay, Intensity, Measured, Organic, Predicted, Slope, Verification
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