Publication: Relaciones agua-suelo-vegetación.-Influencia de la altura de la cubierta vegetal en la variación de la energía cinética de las gotas de lluvia interceptadas
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Roldán Soriano, M.
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Universidad de Murcia
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The erosive capacity of raindrops is function of mass (size) and terminal velocity. Drop mass
and velocity govern the inherent erosivity of rainfall through kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is
a very important property of the rainfall because it is one of the sources of energy in the
process of water erosion. Vegetative canopy intercepts the raindrops and causes a variation
on this rainfall kinetic energy due to modifications of diameters and velocities distributions. If
the height of canopy is enough, the bigger intercepted drops could achieve high velocities
and their kinetic energies can increase.
In this paper a quantitative evaluation of the increase of kinetic energy of intercepted drops is
obtained and it is showed that this kinetic energy increases exponentially with vegetation
height.
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