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Type: Journal Article
Author(s): William J. Elliot
Publication Date: 2004

The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) is a physically based erosion model for applications to dryland and irrigated agriculture, rangeland, and forests. U.S. Forest Service (USFS) experience showed that WEPP was not being adapted because of the difficulty in building files describing the input conditions in the existing interfaces. To address this difficulty, a suite of Internet interfaces with a database was developed to more easily predict soil erosion for a wide range of climatic and forest conditions, including roads, fires, and timber harvest. The database included a much larger climate database than was previously available for applications in remote forest and rangeland areas. Validation results showed reasonable agreement between erosion values reported in the literature and values predicted by the interfaces to the WEPP model.

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Citation: Elliot, William J. 2004. WEPP Internet interfaces for forest erosion prediction. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 40(2):299-309.

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Keywords:
  • erosion
  • forest hydrology
  • forest roads
  • sedimentation
  • WEPP - Water Erosion Prediction Project
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FRAMES Record Number: 3955