Measuring runoff by plots at different scales: Understanding and analysing the sources of variation |
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| Authors: | Lawani Adjadi Mounirou Hamma Yacouba Harouna Karambiri Jean-Emmanuel Paturel Gil Mahé |
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| Institution: | 1. Institut international d’ingénierie de l’eau et de l’environnement, laboratoire hydrologie et ressources en eau, rue de la Science, 01-BP-594, Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso;2. Laboratoire hydrosciences Montpellier, maison des sciences de l’eau, université Montpellier II, place Eugène-Bataillon, CC MSE, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France |
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| Abstract: | The decrease of runoff with the increase in area is not a new fact. The scale effect depends on the spatial and temporal variability of different factors, including the surface characteristics and hydrodynamic properties of the soil and the vegetation development. The purpose of our work is to study the relative influence of the sources of variation of runoff from a small Sahelian catchment on several types of soil surfaces features. Plots of different sizes (1, 50 and 150 m2) on cultivated soils and degraded soils (non-cultivated with three different types of crusts) were monitored for two consecutive years. The results show that the runoff coefficients of rainfall events range from 4 to 65% on cultivated soils and 16 to 96% on uncultivated bare and degraded soils. A statistical and dimensionless analysis shows that in degraded environments, the processes generating runoff on plots of 50 and 150 m2 are identical and significantly different from the unit plot (1 m2). The decrease in runoff with increasing scale becomes more pronounced when rainfall duration decreases. In cultivated areas, this result is not observed. Additional measurements are needed to better understand the differences in functioning at various scales of observations. |
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| Keywords: | Plot Runoff Soil surface feature Hydrologic process Scale effect Sahel |
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