Published July 18, 2025 | Version 1.1.0
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RainErosivity: Customisable Tools to Calculate Precipitation Event Rainfall Erosivity Index

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
  • 2. ROR icon Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

Description

RainErosivity is a comprehensive and freely adjustable R package designed to identify erosive rainfall events in precipitation records, calculate rainfall erosivity statistics (I30 (maximum 30 minute rainfall intensity) and EI30 (rainfall erosivity index)) and summarise rainfall data (duration and cumulative precipitation).

The RainErosivity package is available on GitHub (https://github.com/tchalauxclergue/RainErosivity) and archived on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14745960) (here).

v 1.1.0 addition of alternative formula to calculate raindrop energy (WischmeierSmith1965, WischmeierSmith1978, or BrownFoster1987)

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Additional details

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/tchalauxclergue/RainErosivity
Programming language
R
Development Status
Active