As the field observations of Ks and K are time-consuming, and Ks and K are sensitive to soil texture (Williams et al. 1983; Kaczmarek et al. 2016), the pedo-transfer function method (Sun et al. 2016) was applied to get the values of Ks and K. The soil property estimation module integrated in the SPAW hydrological model (Saxton & Rawls 2006) was applied to calculate Ks. K was calculated with the erosion productivity impact calculator (Williams et al. 1983). Since there are two layers for each soil type recorded in HWSD, the Ks and K values for each soil type are depth weighted. For the water bodies, the values of Ks and K were set as 1 to exclude them from soil. The statistics of the spatial distributions of Ks, K, and Ks·K in YLX, WJB, and HQ are shown in Table 1.
Statistics of Ks and K in study watersheds (Ks: mm/h; K:t·h·MJ−1·mm−1)
Watershed . | Ks . | K . | Ks·K . | |||||||||
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Max . | Min . | Mean . | Std. dev. . | Max . | Min . | Mean . | Std. dev. . | Max . | Min . | Mean . | Std. dev. . | |
YLX | 77.69 | 2.32 | 43.71 | 26.53 | 0.33 | 0.14 | 0.24 | 0.04 | 15.16 | 0.69 | 9.95 | 5.50 |
WJB | 116.44 | 1.33 | 13.18 | 10.15 | 0.36 | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.09 | 13.80 | 0.37 | 3.67 | 2.74 |
HQ | 14.41 | 0.58 | 5.46 | 3.14 | 0.33 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.04 | 3.67 | 0.15 | 1.58 | 1.08 |
Watershed . | Ks . | K . | Ks·K . | |||||||||
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Max . | Min . | Mean . | Std. dev. . | Max . | Min . | Mean . | Std. dev. . | Max . | Min . | Mean . | Std. dev. . | |
YLX | 77.69 | 2.32 | 43.71 | 26.53 | 0.33 | 0.14 | 0.24 | 0.04 | 15.16 | 0.69 | 9.95 | 5.50 |
WJB | 116.44 | 1.33 | 13.18 | 10.15 | 0.36 | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.09 | 13.80 | 0.37 | 3.67 | 2.74 |
HQ | 14.41 | 0.58 | 5.46 | 3.14 | 0.33 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.04 | 3.67 | 0.15 | 1.58 | 1.08 |