erosion-RPhosFate-method function

Erosion

Calculates and writes (R)USLE erosion to disk.

## S4 method for signature 'RPhosFate'
erosion(x)

Arguments

• x: An S4 RPhosFate river catchment object.

Returns

An S4 RPhosFate river catchment object and side effects in the form of raster files.

Examples

# temporary demonstration project copy
cv_dir <- demoProject()
# load temporary demonstration project
x <- RPhosFate(
  cv_dir = cv_dir,
  ls_ini = TRUE
)
# presupposed method call
x <- erosionPrerequisites(x)

x <- erosion(x)

References

Renard, K.G., Foster, G.R., Weesies, G.A., McCool, D.K., Yoder, D.C.,1997. Predicting soil erosion by water: a guide to conservationplanning with the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE),Agriculture Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Wischmeier, W.H., Smith, D.D., 1978. Predicting rainfall erosionlosses. A guide to conservation planning, Agriculture Handbook. U.S.Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

See Also

firstRun, subsequentRun