erosion,RPhosFate-method {RPhosFate}

Erosion

Description

Calculates and writes (R)USLE erosion to disk.

Usage

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

Arguments

x

An S4 RPhosFate river catchment object.

Value

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

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 conservation planning 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 erosion losses. A guide to conservation planning, Agriculture Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

See Also

firstRun, subsequentRun

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)