摘要
Soil erosion and subsequent sedimentation have caused serious environmental and soil degradation problems in Okina-wa Prefecture,Japan.This research aims at evaluating an availability of the Revised Universal Soilloss Equation(RUSLE)forpredicting the range of soil loss values for the Nago watershed in Okinawa.It shows that climatic conditions substantially influ-ence the rainfall amount as a function of the I30 of the rainfall event.The rate of soil loss is higher with increasing in altitude dueto greater slope steepness.By rainfall data analysis,it is concluded that the large difference in soil loss between 2000 and 2001was due to concentrated heavy rainfallin the rainy season or the typhoon season