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Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland, with average soil loss in tons/(ha*month)
Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland with a spatial resolution of 100m. The maps show the average soil loss in tons per hectare and month. Shades of green, yellow and red mean a low, average and high risk of erosion, respectively.The monthly soil erosion risk maps were calculated using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). For this RUSLE application, the monthly dynamic of the rainfall erosivity factor (R-factor) and cover and management factor (C-factor) was considered as follows: A(month)= R(month)*K*C(month)*L*S*P where A(month) is the soil loss in tons per hectare and month and R(month) and C(month) are the monthly R-factor (MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹) and C-factor (dimensionless). The other erosion factors are soil erodibility (K-factor), slope length (L-factor), slope steepness (S-factor) and support practices (P-factor). The RUSLE factors were tailored to the specific environmental conditions of Swiss permanent grassland. The P-factor was included in the calculation as a constant with value 1 due to a lack of spatial information on grazing management and its effect on soil erosion.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Erosion risk permanent grassland
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-04-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-06-27
- Status
- Completed
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 25000
- Topic category
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- F Geoscientific information
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Duration of Conservation
- 100
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
- Comment on Archival Value
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Resource format
- Title
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GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)
- Date
- geocat.ch
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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e-geo.ch
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- GEMET
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erosion control
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erosion
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soil erosion
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Atmospheric conditions
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Human health and safety
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Associated resource
- Title
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Monthly soil erosion risk maps for Swiss permanent grassland
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Subtopic Category
- F2 Soils
- Basic Geodata
- false
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Distribution format
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ESRI Personal Geodatabase (Personal-GDB)
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
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Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
- Reference system identifier
- CH1903_LV03
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- b2025ebb-4d14-4ae3-8d73-1acce6563b0d
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distributor
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b2025ebb-4d14-4ae3-8d73-1acce6563b0d
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-06-20T11:47:46Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T08:57:36.812394Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
