Comparison of the Lumped and Quasi-distributed Clark Runoff Models in Simulating Flood Hydrographs on a Semi-arid Watershed

Saeed Ghavidelfar (), Sayed Alvankar and Arash Razmkhah

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2011, vol. 25, issue 6, 1775-1790

Abstract: In applied hydrology, predicting peak flow for a stream or river is so complex due to temporal and spatial dependency of hydrological variables such as meteorological parameters, variations in soil type and land use. Either advanced distributed hydrological models or simple Lump models can be used for simulating these situations. This paper compares the performance of the quasi-distributed model ModClark versus lumped parameter model Clark in simulating the process of transformation of rainfall to runoff. The aim of this comparison is to identify whether using a complex model which takes into account spatial and temporal distribution parameters, which are hard to prepare and use, will lead to more precise results or not. For the purpose of this study, historical data of Randan basin situated in semi-arid region of Iran in North West of Tehran was used. The size of the catchment is 67.76 km 2 . Reviewing the results of calibration and accuracy of models revealed that both models are able to simulate the hydrology of the catchment in an acceptable way. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

Keywords: Rainfall–runoff model; Distributed model; Lumped model; ModClark; Clark; Semi-arid hydrology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11269-011-9774-5 (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:25:y:2011:i:6:p:1775-1790

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

DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9774-5

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 ().