R-Factor for the Island of Lanai

Description

The rainfall-runoff erosivity factor (R-Factor) quantifies the effects of raindrop impacts and reflects the amount and rate of runoff associated with the rain. The R-factor is one of the parameters used by the Revised Unified Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to estimate annual rates of erosion. This product is a raster representation of R-Factor derived from isoerodent maps published in the Agriculture Handbook Number 703 (Renard et al.,1997). Lines connecting points of equal rainfall ersoivity are called isoerodents. The iserodents plotted on a map of the Island of Lanai were digitized, then values between these lines were obtained by linear interpolation. The final R-Factor data are in raster GeoTiff format at 30 meter resolution in UTM, Zone 4, GRS80, NAD83.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/qnspect.html
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/48227.pdf
57 R-Factor-LA.zip https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/zip/R-Factor-LA.zip
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48227

Tags

  • terrestrial hydrosphere
  • surface water processes/measurements
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • land surface
  • national ocean service
  • r-factor
  • soils
  • coastal zone
  • lanai
  • agriculture
  • rusle2
  • environmental monitoring
  • continent
  • rusle
  • noaa
  • revised universal soil loss equation
  • hawaii
  • soil erosion
  • opennspect
  • north america
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • erosion
  • earth science
  • ocean
  • hawaiian islands
  • erosion/sedimentation
  • runoff
  • central pacific ocean
  • pacific ocean
  • rainfall-runoff erosivity
  • surface water

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