Findings from this study show that in the humid subtropical hillslope
environment of Southeast USA, discrete precipitation events
were not well correlated with measureable erosion but inclusion of antecedent
precipitation and aggregation of precipitation parameters to
multi-week natural precipitation cycles suggests that synoptic systems
may have a more significant influence on soil erosion. Therefore, a useful
temporal scale to relate precipitation to soil erosion is the synoptic
time-scale since at this scale, measurable soil erosion is produced.