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High-frequency variability of aggregate transport under water erosion of well-structured soils

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The transport of soil aggregates from plots of 7.3 and 1.5 m2 caused by the erosion of typical rendzina soil by a shallow supercritical laminar overland flow was studied using a high-speed digital video camera. The diameters of the removed aggregates had a lognormal distribution, and the time intervals between the passages of two successive aggregates had an exponential distribution. Therefore, transport of soil aggregates is a compound Poisson random process, which is formed by summing local independent random erosion processes.

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Original Russian Text © A.Yu. Sidorchuk, 2009, published in Pochvovedenie, 2009, No. 5, pp. 588–597.

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Sidorchuk, A.Y. High-frequency variability of aggregate transport under water erosion of well-structured soils. Eurasian Soil Sc. 42, 543–552 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106422930905010X

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