Empirical study of nonlinearity in direct runoff on a 100 km2basin
Open Access
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Hydrological Sciences Journal
- Vol. 37 (4), 347-358
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02626669209492600
Abstract
One of the scale problems in hydrology is to relate nonlinearity in basin response to size and other factors. On the Sputka basin (103.4 km2), three groups of unit hydrographs were identified, each group having a common shape parameter, N, of the Nash model and each, therefore, representing one dimensionless response. The existence of the three dimensionless responses can be explained in the first place by there being different spatial rainfall patterns for the events from which they were derived. The time parameter, K, within the individual groups depends primarily on the initial flow and on the skewness of the rainfall time pattern. However, when the conditions of rainfall uniformity and of a minimum depth are strictly met, and the initial flow is in a certain range, the basin behaves in a linear fashion.Keywords
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