It is hard to predict when, where, and how bad soil erosion events hit arable fields. But it just got easier - we trained a regional scale model to nowcast erosion events on individual fields. It works surprisingly well! Read more about it in our preprint: https://tinyurl.com/r7hyp5ze
Soil-erosion events on arable land are nowcast by machine learning

Accurate estimates of the location, timing, and severity of soil-erosion events on arable land have eluded erosion-prediction technology for decades. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate how a machine learning model can nowcast the occurrence and relatively rank the severity of erosion events...