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Publications

PRESENTATIONS

  • John Wainwright gave a keynote talk at the “Soil Erosion and Landscape Evolution in a Changing Climatic Environment”, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Anchorage, Alaska, September 2011, entitled “Small steps and giant leaps? (Thoughts for the future based on a decade of progress in understanding and modelling hydrologic and erosion processes)”. Wainwright ISELE Keynote (ZIP)
  • AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco: Simulating sediment transport on a hillslope: a marker-in-cell model. Abstract  Poster
  • AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco: Experimental investigation of particle detachment by raindrop impact: three-dimensional measurements of particle trajectory and velocity. Abstract  Poster

PUBLICATIONS

Please contact John Wainwright if you would like to receive pdf copies of any of these papers.

Our work on developing new techniques for evaluating splash and the importance of rainfall energy can be found in:

  • Long EJ, GK Hargrave, JR Cooper, BGB Kitchener, AJ Parsons, C Hewett and J Wainwright 2014 ‘Experimental investigation into the impact of a liquid droplet onto a granular bed using 3D, time-resolved, particle tracking’.Physical Review E 89, 032201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032201.

The new Marker-in-Cell version of MAHLERAN can be found in:

  • Cooper, JR, J Wainwright, AJ Parsons, Y Onda, T Fukuwara, E Obana, B Kitchener, EJ Long, and GH Hargrave 2012 `A new approach for simulating the redistribution of soil particles by water erosion: A marker-in-cell model´, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 117, F4, F04027, DOI:10.1029/2012JF002499

MAHLERAN is presented in detail in:

  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, EN Müller, RE Brazier, DM Powell and B Fenti 2008 `A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 1. background and model development´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33, 813–826. DOI: 10.1002/esp.1624.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, EN Müller, RE Brazier, DM Powell and B Fenti 2008 `A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 2. Sensitivity and evaluation of Mahleran´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33, 962–984. DOI: 10.1002/esp.1623.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, EN Müller, RE Brazier, DM Powell and B Fenti 2008 `A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 3. Evaluating scaling characteristics of Mahleran´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33, 1113–1128, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1622.

and comments on some of the components are in:

  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, EN Müller, RE Brazier and DM Powell 2009 `Response to Hairsine´s and Sander´s “Comment on `A transport-distance based approach to scaling erosion rates:´ Parts 1, 2 and 3 by Wainwright et al.”´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 886–890, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1781.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, EN Müller, RE Brazier and DM Powell 2009 `Response to Kinnell´s “Comment on `A transport-distance approach to scaling erosion rates: 3. Evaluating scaling characteristics of Mahleran´”´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 1320–1321, DOI: 10.1002/esp.1816.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, EN Müller, RE Brazier and DM Powell 2010 ‘Standing proud: a response to “Soil-erosion models: where do we really stand?” by Smith et al.’, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35, 1349–1356. DOI: 10.1002/esp.2047

Other descriptions and uses of model components can be found in:

  • Müller, EN, J Wainwright and AJ Parsons 2007 `The impact of connectivity on the modelling of water fluxes in semi-arid shrubland environments´, Water Resources Research 43, W09412. DOI:10.1029/2006WR005006
  • Müller, EN, J Wainwright and AJ Parsons 2007 `The stability of vegetation boundaries and the propagation of desertification in the American Southwest: a modelling approach´, Ecological Modelling 208 (2-4), 91–101. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.04.010.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, AD Abrahams and JR Simanton 1997 `Distributed dynamic modelling of interrill overland flow´, Hydrological Processes 11, 1833–1859. DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199711)11:14<1833::AID-HYP499>3.0.CO;2-7.
  • Tatard, L., O Planchon, J Wainwright, G Nord, D Favis-Mortlock, N Silvera, O Ribolzi, M Esteves and C-H Huang 2008 `Measurement and modelling of high-resolution flow-velocity data under simulated rainfall on a low-slope sandy soil´, Journal of Hydrology 348(1-2), 1–12. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.07.016.
  • Turnbull, L, J Wainwright and RE Brazier 2010 `Modelling hydrology, erosion and nutrient transfers over a semi-arid transition from grassland to shrubland in the South-Western USA´. Journal of Hydrology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.05.005.
  • Wainwright, J., AJ Parsons and AD Abrahams 1995 `Simulation of raindrop erosion and the development of desert pavements´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 20(3), 277–291. DOI:10.1002/esp.3290200308.
  • Wainwright, J., AJ Parsons and AD Abrahams 1999 `Field and computer simulation experiments on the formation of desert pavement´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 24(11), 1025–1037. DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199910)24:11%3C1025::AID-ESP28%3E3.0.CO;2-3.
  • Wainwright, J and AJ Parsons 2002 `The effect of temporal variations in rainfall on scale dependency in runoff coefficients´, Water Resources Research 38(12), 1271. DOI:10.1029/2000WR000188.

Other conceptual underpinnings and evaluations are in:

  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, T Furukawa and Y Onda 2010 ‘Using sediment travel distance to estimate medium-term erosion rates: a sixteen-year record’. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35, 1694–1700. DOI: 10.1002/esp.2011.
  • Wilcox, BP, L Turnbull, M Young, CJ Williams, S Ravi, MS Seyfried, DR Bowling, RL Scott, MJ Germino, TG Caldwell and J Wainwright 2012 ‘Invasion of shrublands by exotic grasses: ecohydrological consequences in cold versus warm deserts’, Ecohydrology 5, 160–173. DOI: 10.1002/eco.247.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, DM Powell, J Kaduk and RE Brazier 2004 `A conceptual model for understanding and predicting erosion by water´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 29(10), 1293–1302. DOI:10.1002/esp.1096.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, RE Brazier and DM Powell 2006 `Is sediment delivery a fallacy?´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31(10), 1325–1328. DOI:10.1002/esp.1395.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, DM Powell and RE Brazier 2006 `Scale relationships in hillslope runoff and erosion´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31(11), 1384–1393. DOI:10.1002/esp.1345.
  • Parsons, AJ, RE Brazier and J Wainwright 2006 `A conceptual model for sediment and nutrient fluxes from rural land´, International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management 2(3), 232-234.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, RE Brazier and DM Powell 2008 `Is sediment delivery a fallacy? Reply´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33(10), 1630-1631. DOI:10.1002/esp.1627.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, RE Brazier and DM Powell 2008 `Scale relationships in hillslope runoff and erosion: Reply´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33(10), 1637-1638.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, DM Powell and RE Brazier 2001 `A new conceptual framework for understanding and predicting erosion by water from hillslopes and catchments´, in JC Ascough II and DC Flanagan (eds) Soil Erosion Research for the 21st Century. Proceedings of the International Symposium, 607–610, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St Joseph, MI.

Some of our other relevant papers on runoff and erosion processes are:

  • Abrahams, AD and AJ Parsons 1990 `Determining the mean depth of overland flow in field studies of flow hydraulics´, Water Resources Research 26, 501–503.
  • Abrahams, AD and AJ Parsons 1991 `Relation between infiltration and stone cover on a semiarid hillslope, southern Arizona´, Journal of Hydrology 122, 49–59.
  • Abrahams, AD and AJ Parsons 1991 `Relation between sediment yield and gradient on debris-covered hillslopes, Walnut Gulch, Arizona´, Geological Society of America Bulletin 103, 1109–1113.
  • Abrahams, AD and AJ Parsons 1991 `Resistance to overland flow on desert pavement and its implications for sediment transport modeling´, Water Resources Research 27, 1827–1836.
  • Abrahams, AD and AJ Parsons 1994 `Hydraulics of interrill overland flow on stone-covered desert surfaces´, Catena 23, 111–140.
  • Abrahams, AD, AJ Parsons and J Wainwright 1995 `Effects of vegetation change on interrill runoff and erosion, southern Arizona´, Geomorphology 13(1-4), 37–48. DOI:10.1016/0169-555X(95)00027-3.
  • Abrahams, AD, AJ Parsons and J Wainwright 1995 `Controls and determination of resistance to overland flow on semiarid hillslopes, Walnut Gulch´, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 50(5), 457–460.
  • Abrahams, AD, AJ Parsons and J Wainwright 2003 `Disposition of stemflow under creosotebush´, Hydrological Processes 17(13), 2555–2566. DOI:10.1002/hyp.1272.
  • Abrahams, AD, AJ Parsons and S-H Luk 1988 `Hydrologic and sediment responses to simulated rainfall on desert hillslopes in southern Arizona´, Catena 15(2), 103–117.
  • Abrahams, AD, AJ Parsons and S-H Luk 1989 `Distribution of depth of overland flow on desert hillslopes and its implications for modelling soil erosion´, Journal of Hydrology 106, 177–184.
  • Abrahams, AD, AJ Parsons and S-H Luk 1991 `The effect of spatial variability in overland flow on the downslope pattern of soil loss on a semi-arid hillslope, southern Arizona´, Catena 18, 255-270.
  • Abrahams, AD, G Li and AJ Parsons 1996 `Rill hydraulics on a semi-arid hillslope, southern Arizona´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21, 35–47.
  • Abrahams, AD, S-H Luk and AJ Parsons 1988 `Threshold relations for the transport of sediment by overland flow on desert hillslopes´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 13(5), 407–419.
  • Abrahams, AD., AJ Parsons and J Wainwright 1994 `Resistance to overland flow on semiarid grassland and shrubland hillslopes, Walnut Gulch, Southern Arizona´, Journal of Hydrology 156(1-4), 431–446. DOI:10.1016/0022-1694(94)90088-4.
  • Brazier, RE, AJ Parsons, J Wainwright, DM Powell and WH Schlesinger 2007 `Upscaling understanding of nutrient dynamics associated with overland flow in a semi-arid environment´, Biogeochemistry 82(3), 265-278. DOI:10.1007/s10533-007-9070-x.
  • Luk, S-H, AD Abrahams and AJ Parsons 1993 `Sediment sources and sediment transport by rill flow and interrill flow on a semi-arid piedmont slope southern Arizona´, Catena 22, 93–111.
  • Malam Issa, O, Y Le Bissonnais, O Planchon, D Favis-Mortlock, N Silvera and J Wainwright, 2006 `Soil detachment and transport on field- and laboratory-scale interrill areas: erosion processes and the size-selectivity of eroded sediment´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31(8), 929–939. DOI:10.1002/esp.1303.
  • Parsons, A.J, AD Abrahams and J Wainwright 1996 `Responses of interrill runoff and erosion rates to vegetation change in southern Arizona´, Geomorphology 14(4), 311–317. DOI:10.1016/0169-555X(95)00044-6.
  • Parsons, AJ and AD Abrahams 1989 `A miniature flume for sampling interrill overland flow´, Physical Geography 10, 96–105.
  • Parsons, AJ and AD Abrahams 1992 `Controls on sediment removal by interrill overland flow on semi-arid hillslopes´, Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 41, 177–188.
  • Parsons, AJ and J Wainwright 2000 `A process-based evaluation of a process-based soil-erosion model´, in J Schmidt (ed.) Soil Erosion – Application of Physically Based Models, 181–198, Springer, Berlin.
  • Parsons, AJ and J Wainwright 2006 `Depth distribution of interrill overland flow and the formation of rills´, Hydrological Processes 20(7), 1511–1523. DOI:10.1002/hyp.5941.
  • Parsons, AJ and SGL Stromberg 1998 `Experimental analysis of size and distance of travel of unconstrained particles in interrill flow´, Water Resources Research 34, 2377–2381.
  • Parsons, AJ, AD Abrahams and J Wainwright 1994 `On determining resistance to interrill overland flow´, Water Resources Research 30(12), 3515–3521. DOI:10.1029/94WR02176.
  • Parsons, AJ, AD Abrahams and J Wainwright 1994 `Rainsplash and erosion rates in an interrill area on semi-arid grassland, Southern Arizona´, Catena 22(3), 215–226. DOI:10.1016/0341-8162(94)90003-5#.
  • Parsons, AJ, AD Abrahams and JR Simanton 1992 `Microtopography and soil-surface materials on semi-arid piedmont hillslopes, southern Arizona´, Journal of Arid Environments 22, 107–115.
  • Parsons, AJ, AD Abrahams and S-H Luk 1990 `Hydraulics of interrill overland flow on a semi arid hillslope, southern Arizona´, Journal of Hydrology 117, 255-273.
  • Parsons, AJ, AD Abrahams and S-H Luk 1991 `Size characteristics of sediment in interrill overland flow on a semi-arid hillslope, southern Arizona´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 16, 143-152.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright and AD Abrahams 1993 `Tracing sediment movement on semi-arid grassland using magnetic susceptibility´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 18(8), 721–732. DOI:10.1002/esp.3290180806.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright and AD Abrahams 1996 `Runoff and erosion on semi-arid hillslopes´, in MG Anderson and SM Brooks (eds) Advances in Hillslope Processes, 1061–1078, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, PM Stone and AD Abrahams 1999 `Transmission losses in rills on dryland hillslopes´, Hydrological Processes 13(17), 2897–2905. DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(19991215)13:17<2897::AID-HYP905>3.0.CO;2-B.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, T Fukuwara and Y Onda 2010 `Using sediment travel distance to estimate medium-term erosion rates: a 16-year record´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35. DOI: 10.1002/esp.2011.
  • Parsons, AJ, J Wainwright, WH Schlesinger and AD Abrahams 2003 `Sediment and nutrient transport by overland flow in mesquite nabkha, southern New Mexico´, Journal of Arid Environments 53(1), 61–71. DOI:10.1006/jare.2002.1021.
  • Parsons, AJ, SGL Stromberg and M Greener 1998 `Sediment-transport competence of rain-impacted interrill overland flow´, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 23, 365–375.
  • Schlesinger, WH, AD Abrahams, AJ Parsons and J Wainwright 1999 `Nutrient losses in runoff from grassland and shrubland habitats in Southern New Mexico: I. rainfall simulation experiments´, Biogeochemistry 45(1), 21–34. DOI:10.1023/A:1006020831706.
  • Wainwright, J 1992 `Assessing the impact of erosion on semi arid archæological sites´, in M Bell and J Boardman (eds) Past and Present Soil Erosion, 228–241, Oxbow Books, Oxford.
  • Wainwright, J 1996 `A comparison of the infiltration, runoff and erosion characteristics of two contrasting ‘badland’ areas in southern France´, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementband 106, 183–198.
  • Wainwright, J 1996 `Hillslope response to extreme storm events: the example of the Vaison-la-Romaine event´, in MG Anderson and SM Brooks (eds) Advances in Hillslope Processes, 997–1026, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
  • Wainwright, J 1996 `Infiltration, runoff and erosion characteristics of agricultural land in extreme storm events, SE France´, Catena 26(1-2), 27–47. DOI:10.1016/0341-8162(95)00033-X.
  • Wainwright, J and AJ Parsons 1998 `Sensitivity of sediment-transport equations to errors in hydraulic models of overland flow´, in J Boardman and D Favis-Mortlock (eds) Modelling Soil Erosion by Water, 271–284, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Wainwright, J and JB Thornes 1991 `Computer and hardware modelling of archæological sediment transport on hillslopes´, in K Lockyear and S Rahtz (eds) Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archæology 1990, 183–194. BAR International Series 565, Oxford.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons and AD Abrahams 1999 `Rainfall energy under creosotebush´, Journal of Arid Environments 43(2), 111–120. DOI:10.1006/jare.1999.0540.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons and AD Abrahams 2000 `Plot-scale studies of vegetation, overland flow and erosion interactions: case studies from Arizona and New Mexico´, Hydrological Processes 14(16-17), 2921–2943. DOI:10.1002/1099-1085(200011/12)14:16/17<2921::AID-HYP127>3.0.CO;2-7.
  • Wainwright, J, AJ Parsons, WH Schlesinger and AD Abrahams 2002 `Hydrology–vegetation interactions in areas of discontinuous flow on a semi-arid bajada, southern New Mexico´, Journal of Arid Environments 51(3), 319–330. DOI:10.1006/jare.2002.0970.
  • Zhang, X, NA Drake and J Wainwright 2002 `Scaling land-surface parameters for global scale soil-erosion estimation´, Water Resources Research 38(9), 1180. DOI:10.1029/2001WR000356

Please contact John Wainwright if you would like to receive pdf copies of any of these papers.