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<journal-id>0871-018X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Ciências Agrárias]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. de Ciências Agrárias]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0871-018X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedade de Ciências Agrárias de Portugal]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0871-018X2022000300771</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.19084/rca.28623</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[InfiAsper: a rainfall simulator with varying precipitation intensity to assess soil erosion]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[InfiAsper: um simulador de chuva com intensidade de precipitação variável para avaliar a erosão do solo]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Almeida]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Wilk Sampaio de]]></given-names>
</name>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aaf"/>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Macedo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Pietro Menezes Sanchez]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Moraes]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[André Geraldo de Lima]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Carvalho]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Daniel Fonseca de]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rondônia Agronomy Department ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Ariquemes RO]]></addr-line>
<country>Brazil</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Center, Associated Laboratory TERRA]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Lisboa ]]></addr-line>
<country>Portugal</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro Institute of Technology Department of Engineering]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Seropédica RJ]]></addr-line>
<country>Brazil</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af4">
<institution><![CDATA[,Utah State University Department of Watershed Sciences ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Logan UT]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>30</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>30</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>45</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<fpage>771</fpage>
<lpage>780</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0871-018X2022000300771&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0871-018X2022000300771&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0871-018X2022000300771&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Research involving the use of rain simulators dates to 1930. Since then, the evolution of this equipment has made it increasingly accessible, practical, and accurate. Its applications include the assessment of the impacts of water erosion on soil degradation as a function of land use and occupation and the rate of water infiltration into the soil. The reproduction of the rainfall pattern by varying the intensity of precipitation is one of the main limitations of the use of simulators. However, the recent modification in InfiAsper (Macedo et al., 2021) allows instantaneous varying the intensity of rainfall application and provides high uniformity in rainfall of different patterns.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[Resumo As pesquisas envolvendo o uso de simuladores de chuva datam de 1930. Desde então, a evolução desse equipamento o tornou cada vez mais acessível, prático e preciso. Suas aplicações incluem a avaliação dos impactos da erosão hídrica na degradação do solo em função do uso e ocupação do solo e da taxa de infiltração da água no solo. A reprodução do padrão pluviométrico variando a intensidade da precipitação é uma das principais limitações do uso de simuladores. No entanto, a modificação recente no InfiAsper (Macedo et al., 2021) permite variar instantaneamente a intensidade de aplicação das chuvas e proporciona alta uniformidade nas chuvas de diferentes padrões.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Rainfall simulator]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Soil erosion process]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Soil water infiltration]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Simulador de chuvas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Processo de erosão do solo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Infiltração de água no solo]]></kwd>
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