R-Factor for the Conterminous United States
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 coterminous U.S. 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, GRS80, NAD83.
Complete Metadata
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
|---|---|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:48224 |
| issued | 2013-12-26T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48224 |
| language | [] |
| references |
[ "https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/48224.pdf" ] |
| rights | otherRestrictions, unclassified |
| spatial | -66.4104121711,24.5562065906,-125.325871714,48.4453282747 |
| temporal | 1975-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
