During the 1980's, the impact of frequent droughts and consequent erosion of topsoil by the wind have become of increasing concern to the agricultural community of southern Alberta. This paper outlines the design and implementation of a methodology aimed at producing a reasonably accurate assessment of soil loss along with observations on, and preliminary results of, the initial field season.
The basis for estimating soil loss is the integration of an equation to determine the total mass of sediment moving between any two points on the curve so described which is then extended to the total eroding surf ace. Since the starting point requires the best possible description of that curve, any less accurate equation would introduce an error factor which
would be magnified as the procedure was carried further. From these analyses the greatest potential still appears to lay in treating each erosive event individually but by first using a general model and step-wise deletion to produce the best description with the least number of independent variables.