R-Factor for Alaska
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 Runoff Estimates for Small Rural Watersheds and Development of a Sound Design method. Volume II. (Fletcher et al., 1977). Lines connecting points of equal rainfall erosivity are called isoerodents. The isoerodents plotted on a map of Alaska were digitized, then values between these lines were obtained by linear interpolation. The final R-Factor data are in raster GeoTiff format at 800 meter resolution in Albers Conic Equal Area,WGS84, WGS84.
Complete Metadata
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
|---|---|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:48223 |
| issued | 2014-06-06T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48223 |
| language | [] |
| references |
[ "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/48223.pdf" ] |
| rights | otherRestrictions, unclassified |
| spatial | -123.346463,52.510506,167.930127,71.40623 |
| temporal | 1965-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1975-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
