Publications by Seifeddine Jomaa

Applicability of the landscape evolution model in the absence of rills

David Andrew Barry, Paolo Perona, Seifeddine Jomaa, Andrea Rinaldo, Mohsen Cheraghi, Andrea Cimatoribus

Despite numerous applications of physically-based models for incised landscapes, their applicability for overland flow on unchanneled surfaces is not known. This work challenges a widely used landscape evolution model for the case of non-uniform rainfall a ...

2022

Transport time scales in soil erosion modelling

David Andrew Barry, Seifeddine Jomaa, Mohsen Cheraghi

Unlike sediment transport in rivers, erosion of agricultural soil must overcome its cohesive strength to move soil particles into suspension. Soil particle size variability also leads to fall velocities covering many orders of magnitude, and hence to diffe ...

Soil Sci Soc Amer2017

Linear scaling of precipitation-driven soil erosion in laboratory flumes

David Andrew Barry, Seifeddine Jomaa

The proportionality between raindrop-driven soil erosion delivery and area of soil exposed to raindrops under a uniform precipitation rate was investigated in terms of individual size classes using laboratory flume experiments. In particular, we examined t ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Hysteretic sediment fluxes in rainfall-driven soil erosion: Particle size effects

David Andrew Barry, Seifeddine Jomaa, Mohsen Cheraghi

A detailed laboratory study was conducted to examine the effects of particle size on hysteretic sediment transport under time-varying rainfall. A rainfall pattern composed of seven sequential stepwise varying rainfall intensities (30, 37.5, 45, 60, 45, 37. ...

American Geophysical Union2016

Effect of antecedent conditions and fixed rock fragment coverage on soil erosion dynamics through multiple rainfall events

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Seifeddine Jomaa

The effect of antecedent conditions and specific rock fragment coverage on precipitation-driven soil erosion dynamics through multiple rainfall events was investigated using a pair of 6-m × 1-m flumes with 2.2% slope. Four sequential experiments – denoted ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Solute and sediment transport at laboratory and field scale: Contributions of J.-Y. Parlange

David Andrew Barry, Seifeddine Jomaa

We explore selected aspects of J.-Y. Parlange’s contributions to hydrological transport of solutes and sediments, including both the laboratory and field scales. At the laboratory scale, he provided numerous approximations for solute transport accounting f ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Rain splash soil erosion estimation in the presence of rock fragments

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Seifeddine Jomaa

Rain splash soil erosion in the presence of rock fragments and different initial conditions was tested in laboratory flume experiments under controlled conditions. The aim of the experiments was to ascertain whether cumulative soil erosion is proportional ...

2012

Erosion of soils due to rainfall impact – An interpolation method

Marc Parlange, David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Seifeddine Jomaa

An approximate analytical solution of the Hairsine-Rose model of erosion is obtained by interpolation of asymptotic expressions for large times and great distances. The solution, when erosion is initiated by rainfall impact, is both simple and accurate. Th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Influence of rock fragment coverage on soil erosion and hydrological response: Laboratory flume experiments and modeling

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Seifeddine Jomaa

Two laboratory flume experiments on the effect of surface rock fragments on precipitation-driven soil erosion yields were carried out. The total sediment concentration, the concentration of seven individual size classes and the flow discharge were measured ...

American Geophysical Union2012

Process-Based Precipitation-Driven Soil Erosion Modeling : Laboratory Flume Experiments and Analysis with the Hairsine-Rose Model

Seifeddine Jomaa

Soil erosion due to rainfall is a complex phenomenon. Factors influencing erosion and subsequent transport include rainfall intensity, soil properties, topography, land cover and antecedent conditions. These factors and their interactions can be approximat ...

EPFL2012

Exact solutions of the Hairsine-Rose precipitation-driven erosion model for a uniform grain-sized soil

David Andrew Barry, Seifeddine Jomaa

Hairsine and Rose developed a mechanistic, one-dimensional, precipitation-driven erosion model that, since its appearance, has been validated by several sets of experimental results. The model allows any sediment particle to be present in one of three zone ...

2010

Effect of raindrop splash and transversal width on soil erosion: Laboratory flume experiments and analysis with the Hairsine-Rose model

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Seifeddine Jomaa

The parameter consistency of the one-dimensional Hairsine-Rose (H-R) erosion model under conditions of significant rainfall splash was examined. To account for the splash characteristic length scale and its interaction with the transverse erosion width, ex ...

2010