Single Event Watershed Model for Simulating Runoff Hydrograph in Desert Regions

Fayez Abdulla (), Jumah Amayreh and Adel Hossain

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2002, vol. 16, issue 3, 238 pages

Abstract: This study is aimed to use the available limited meteorologicaland hydrological data for two catchments located in the westernIraqi desert, to develop and apply a simple single event watershed model to simulate and predict the surface runoff hydrograph. The single event watershed model is based on the water balance equation. The inputs to the model are rainfall,evaporation, and soil properties data. The Resonbrock optimization technique is employed to determine the optimum parameters of the model. Also a simple and a modified versionof this model is suggested and tested for the study area. Theavailable rainfall and runoff data in these catchments have beenused in calibrating and testing the model. In model testing, theoptimized parameters for a particular storm are used to test themodel performance on other available storms and so on. Sensitivity analysis has been used to determine the most sensitive parameters. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002

Keywords: arid region; calibration; hydrological model; optimization; runoff hydrograph; sensitivity analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1023/A:1020258808869 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:waterr:v:16:y:2002:i:3:p:221-238

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11269

DOI: 10.1023/A:1020258808869

Access Statistics for this article

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) is currently edited by G. Tsakiris

More articles in Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA) from Springer, European Water Resources Association (EWRA)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().