Conclusion
A detailed study of storm characteristics showed that relationship between soil loss and rainfall intensities can be
characterized by two forms of function: (1) in low rainfall intensities a linear function is fitted to soil loss-rainfall
intensity, and (2) in high rainfall intensities nonlinear functions are fitted to soil loss-rainfall intensity. Analysis of
variance (ANOVA) indicated that no consistent differences in runoff coefficient was observed across all storm
patterns but significant differences in total runoff, soil loss, and sediment concentration were found. In particular,
storms with increasing rainfall intensity yielded the highest runoff, soil loss and sediment concentration.