Potential erosion of agricultural lands, 2021

Description

The potential erosion risk of Finnish agricultural lands data describes the average erosion risk of surface soil to water erosion (kg/ha/y) in the case of bare fallow conditions. The data is based on RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) and it covers almost all agricultural lands in Finland in 10×10 m resolution. The calculations include the effects of rainfall (R), soil type (K), slope length (L), slope steepness (S), and bare fallow (C=0.5) on erosion, but exclude the effects of other human activities (P). The effect of rainfall is based on measured precipitation data from 2007-2013. The total size of the data is approx. 1 GB and it includes one file. The data is derived from [erosion susceptibility of land areas](https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:att:f658fb82-ef83-48c3-a48b-181fdb87cda0) (2×2 m) Coordinate system: ETRS89 / ETRS-TM35FIN (EPSG:3067) More detailed description of the data: Räsänen, T.A., Tähtikarhu, M., Uusi-Kämppä, J., Piirainen, S., Turola, E., 2023. Evaluation of RUSLE and spatial assessment of agricultural soil erosion in Finland. Geoderma Regional, 32, e00610, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2023.e00610.
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Year of publication

2021

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Authors

Timo Räsänen - Creator

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Fields of science

Geosciences; Agronomy

Language

Open access

Open

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Keywords

RUSLE

Subject headings

erosion, fields (agriculture)

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