Soil erosion model output

The soil erosion models generate the sediment taken into transport as output, which is given in ton per cell. Soil erosion is frequently reported in ton ha-1 yr-1 or kg km-2 yr-1, hence, post-processing of the output data is needed to determine the more commonly used soil erosion output formats.

The process-based soil erosion models (i.e. MMF, INCA, SHETRAN, DHSVM and HSPF) also allow to give the detachment by raindrop impact and detachment by runoff as output. Similar to the sediment taken into transport output, the detachment by raindrop impact and runoff are given in ton per cell. The MMF model also generates the immediate deposition as model output in ton per cell.