Table 2.
Lists of the top 25 most applied soil erosion prediction models according to the records reported in the GASEMT database.
| Model | Records | % | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSLE | 507 | 17.1 | (Renard et al., 1997) |
| USLE | 412 | 13.9 | (Wischmeier and Smith, 1978) |
| WEPP | 191 | 6.4 | (Laflen et al., 1991) |
| SWAT | 185 | 6.2 | (Arnold et al., 2012) |
| WaTEM/SEDEM | 139 | 4.7 | (Van Oost et al., 2000) |
| RUSLE-SDR | 115 | 3.9 | – |
| USLE-SDR | 64 | 2.2 | – |
| LISEM | 57 | 1.9 | (De Roo et al., 1996) |
| Customized approach | 53 | 1.8 | – |
| MUSLE | 52 | 1.7 | (Williams and Berndt, 1977) |
| MMF | 48 | 1.6 | (Morgan et al., 1984) |
| AnnAGNPS | 47 | 1.6 | (Young et al., 1989) |
| RHEM | 44 | 1.5 | (Nearing et al., 2011) |
| Unknown | 36 | 1.2 | – |
| Erosion 3D | 29 | 1.0 | (Schmidt, 1991) |
| EPIC | 25 | 0.8 | (Williams et al., 1983) |
| PESERA | 23 | 0.8 | (Govers et al., 2003) |
| USPED | 22 | 0.7 | (Mitasova et al., 1996) |
| GeoWEPP | 20 | 0.7 | (Renschler, 2003) |
| RUSLE2 | 20 | 0.7 | (Foster et al., 2001) |
| EPM | 19 | 0.6 | (Gavrilovic, 1962) |
| STREAM | 19 | 0.6 | (Cerdan et al., 2002) |
| RUSLE/SEDD | 16 | 0.5 | (Ferro and Porto, 2000) |
| DSESYM | 15 | 0.5 | (Yuan et al., 2015) |
| EUROSEM | 15 | 0.5 | (Morgan et al., 1998) |