RUSLE2
Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation
The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation 2 (RUSLE2) is a soil erosion model based on the universal soil loss equation.
- Developer
- University of Tennessee
- Model Information
- For more information about this model, go to www.ars.usda.gov
- Spatial Resolution
- Area of analysis ranges from a small field to small basin scale. The location and soil type are user defined for the selected region.
- Temporal Resolution
- Model is not a time based simulation model.
- Outputs
- Outputs include erosion rates, sediment deposition and yield rates.
- Intended User
- practitioner
- Model Type
- watershed
- Inclusion of Climate Change
- Input climate data parameters would have to be altered to represent future conditions.
- Geographic Region
- generalized
- Data Requirements
- some data sets built in
- Source Code Availability
- closed source
- Dimensions
- not available
- Computational Burden
- low
- Scenario Modeling
- scenarios by hand only
- Coding Language
- GUI
- Operating System
- not applicable
- Mathematical Approach
- deterministic
- Maintenance Plan
- maintained
- Date of Last Known Update
- not available
- User Manual
- go to documentation at s3.amazonaws.com
For more information and definitions of terms, see the codebook. Do you have feedback about this tool?