Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and flooding defences, runoff forecasting, and for catchment ...management tasks such as water allocation and climate impact analysis. This full colour book offers an impressive synthesis of decades of international research, forming a holistic approach to catchment hydrology and providing a one-stop resource for hydrologists in both developed and developing countries. Topics include data for runoff regionalisation, the prediction of runoff hydrographs, flow duration curves, flow paths and residence times, annual and seasonal runoff, and floods. Illustrated with many case studies and including a final chapter on recommendations for researchers and practitioners, this book is written by expert authors involved in the prestigious IAHS PUB initiative. It is a key resource for academic researchers and professionals in the fields of hydrology, hydrogeology, ecology, geography, soil science, and environmental and civil engineering.
The Clean Water Act, with its emphasis on storm water and sediment control in urban areas, has created a compelling need for information in small-catchment hydrology. This book provides the basic ...information and techniques required for understanding and implementing design systems to control runoff, erosion, and sedimentation. It will be especially useful to those involved in urban and industrial planning and development, surface mining activities, storm water management, sediment control, and environmental management. This class-tested text, which presents many solved problems throughout as well as solutions at the end of each chapter, is suitable for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses. In addition, practicing professionals will find it a valuable reference.
The regulation and spatial differences of urban runoffs are of great concern in contemporary hydrological research. However, owing to a shortage of basic data sources and restrictions on urban ...hydrological simulation functions, simulating and investigating the regulation mechanism behind rainfall-runoff processes remain significantly challenging. In this study, the Time Variant Gain Model (TVGM), a hydrological nonlinear system model, was extrapolated to the hydrodynamic model of an urban drainage network system by integrating it with the widely used Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) to adequately simulate urban runoff events while considering various underlying surfaces and runoff routing modes, such as surface, drainage network and river runoff, in urban regions (i.e., TVGM-SWMM). Moreover, runoff events were characterized using the following four runoff regime metrics: runoff coefficient, capture ratio of annual runoff volume, standardized flood timescale, and the ratio of occurrence time differences between flow and rainfall peak to event duration (peak flow delay time). The characteristics and spatial differences of urban runoff regulations were investigated, and the key impact factors and their relative contributions were identified using multivariate statistical analyses. Four communities were selected as our study areas, consisting of communities from Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan, and Chongqing. Our results showed that the TVGM-SWMM performed considerably better than SWMM alone. The comprehensive simulation accuracy of 60% of the events (12/20) improved by 486%, with the bias improving the most, followed by the efficiency coefficient. Barring the runoff coefficient, significant spatial differences were identified at the patch scale for the runoff regime metrics, with differences of 0.43, 0.22, and 0.16 (
p
<0.05). The key impact factors were the pipe length (
r
=0.51) in the drainage network system and the forest area ratios (
r
=0.56), sponge measures (
r
=0.52), grassland (
r
=0.48), and impervious surface (
r
=0.46) in the underlying surfaces. The contributions of the drainage network system and the underlying surfaces were 4.27% and 37.83%, respectively. Regulation in the Beijing community, dominated by grassland regulation, delayed and reduced the peak flow and total runoff volume. In the Shenzhen community, sharp and thin runoff events were mainly generated by impervious surfaces and were not adequately regulated. Forest regulation was the dominant regulation type in the Wuhan community, which reduced the total runoff volume and delayed the peak flow. Waterbody regulation was the primary regulation type in the Chongqing community, which reduced the total runoff volume and peak flow. This study aims to introduce a comprehensive theoretical and technical assessment of the hydrological effects of urbanization and the performance of sponge city construction and provide a reference for urban hydrological model improvements in China.
The active rock glacier “Innere Ölgrube” and its catchment area (Ötztal Alps, Austria) are assessed using various hydro(geo)logical tools to provide a thorough catchment characterization and to ...quantify temporal variations in recharge and discharge components. During the period from June 2014 to July 2018, an average contribution derived from snowmelt, ice melt and rainfall of 35.8%, 27.6% and 36.6%, respectively, is modelled for the catchment using a rainfall‐runoff model. Discharge components of the rock glacier springs are distinguished using isotopic data as well as other natural and artificial tracer data, when considering the potential sources rainfall, snowmelt, ice melt and longer stored groundwater. Seasonal as well as diurnal variations in runoff are quantified and the importance of shallow groundwater within this rock glacier‐influenced catchment is emphasized. Water derived from ice melt is suggested to be provided mainly by melting of two small cirque glaciers within the catchment and subordinately by melting of permafrost ice of the rock glacier. The active rock glacier is characterized by a layered internal structure with an unfrozen base layer responsible for groundwater storage and retarded runoff, a main permafrost body contributing little to the discharge (at the moment) by permafrost thaw and an active layer responsible for fast lateral flow on top of the permafrost body. Snowmelt contributes at least 1/3rd of the annual recharge. During droughts, meltwater derived from two cirque glaciers provides runoff with diurnal runoff variations; however, this discharge pattern will change as these cirque glaciers will ultimately disappear in the future. The storage‐discharge characteristics of the investigated active rock glacier catchment are an example of a shallow groundwater aquifer in alpine catchments that ought to be considered when analysing (future) river runoff characteristics in alpine catchments as these provide retarded runoff during periods with little or no recharge.
Seasonal variations in input (“recharge”) and output (discharge) of an active rock glacier catchment are quantified by rainfall‐runoff modelling and analysing natural and artificial tracer data; thereby contributing to a better understanding of storage‐discharge characteristics of high alpine catchments that ought to be considered when analysing (future) river runoff from alpine catchments. The provided steady baseflow and delayed release of water within such catchments is crucial to understand and critical to sustain ecological diversity in the light of climate change.
Understanding the nature of streamflow response to precipitation inputs is at the core of hydrological applications and water resource management. Indices such as the base flow index, recession ...constant, and response lag of a watershed retain an important place in hydrology as metrics to compare watersheds and understand the impact of human activity, geology, geomorphology, soils, and climate on precipitation–runoff relations. Extracting characteristics of the hyetograph–hydrograph relationship is often done manually, which is time consuming and may result in subjective and potentially inconsistent outcomes. Here, we present a MATLAB‐based toolbox, called HydRun, for rapid and flexible rainfall–runoff analysis. HydRun uses a series of flexible routines to extract base flow from the hydrograph and then computes commonly used time instants of the rainfall–runoff relationship. HydRun provides users the flexibility to decide thresholds and limits of analysis, but objectively computes hydrometric indices. The toolkit includes a graphical user interface and example files. In this paper, we apply HydRun to 4 watersheds, 3 in Scotland and 1 in Canada, to demonstrate the software functions and highlight important decisions the user must make in its application.
Much has been written on the subject of objective functions to calibrate rainfall-runoff models. Many studies focus on the best choice for low-flow simulations or different multi-objective purposes. ...Only a few studies, however, investigate objective functions to optimize the simulations of low-flow indices that are important for water management. Here, we test different objective functions, from single objective functions with different discharge transformations or using low-flow indices, to combinations of single objective functions, and we evaluate their robustness and sensitivity to the rainfall-runoff model. We find that the Kling and Gupta efficiency (KGE) applied to a transformation of discharge is inadequate to fulfil all assessment criteria, whereas the mean of the KGE applied to the discharge and the KGE applied to the inverse of the discharge is sufficient. The robustness depends on the climate variability rather than the objective function and the results are insensitive to the model.
EDITOR A. Castellarin; ASSOCIATE EDITOR C. Perrin
Land surface and global hydrological models are often used to characterize global water and energy fluxes and stores and to model their future trajectories. This study evaluates estimates of ...streamflow and evapotranspiration (ET) obtained with a priori parameterization from a land surface model CSIRO Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) and a global hydrological model (H08) against a global dataset of streamflow from 644 largely unregulated catchments and ET from 98 flux towers and benchmarks their performance against two lumped conceptual daily rainfall–runoff models modèle du Génie Rural à 4 paramètres Journalier (GR4J) and a simplified version of the HYDROLOG model (SIMHYD). The results show that all four models perform poorly in simulating the monthly and annual runoff values, with the rainfall–runoff models outperforming both CABLE and H08. The model biases in runoff are generally reflected as a complementary opposite bias in ET. All models can generally reproduce the observed seasonal and interannual runoff variability. The correlations between the modeled and observed runoff time series are reasonable, with the rainfall–runoff models performing slightly better than CABLE and H08 at the monthly time scale and all four models performing similarly at the annual time scale. The results suggest that while the land surface and global hydrological models cannot adequately simulate the actual runoff time series and long-term average volumes, they can reasonably simulate the monthly and interannual runoff variability and trends and can therefore be reliably used for broadscale or comparative regional and global water and energy balance assessments and simulations of future trajectories. They can be improved through validating the models or calibrating some of the more sensitive and less physically based parameters.
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