From the Proceedings of the 1983 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science - April 16, 1983, Flagstaff, Arizona / Almost all runoff from small rangeland watersheds in the Southwest is the result of intense thunderstorm rainfall, and the variability of this rainfall is an important runoff-influencing factor in such areas where high intensity rainfall dominates watershed hydrology. Thunderstorm runoff estimates for small rangeland watersheds can be made using a multitude of estimating techniques ranging from simple table and graph procedures to utilizing high-speed computers, and even the most sophisticated models greatly simplify the rainfall input. In this paper, the combined effects of rainfall quantity and intensity, and the rainfall energy factor, EI, in the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), were analyzed, and simple procedures for estimating semiarid rangeland runoff volumes were developed. Equally good correlations with runoff volumes were found for EI, and for total storm rainfall times maximum rainfall intensities for 5, 10, and 30 minutes and the square of the maximum 60-minute rainfall.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/296083 |
| Date | 16 April 1983 |
| Creators | Simanton, J. R., Osborn, H. B. |
| Contributors | USDA-ARS, Southwest Rangeland Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ 85705 |
| Publisher | Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright ©, where appropriate, is held by the author. |
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