IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/waterr/v29y2015i15p5765-5782.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Flood Hydrograph with Synthetic Unit Hydrograph Routing

Author

Listed:
  • M. Bhuyan
  • Sanjay Kumar
  • Joygopal Jena
  • P. Bhunya

Abstract

Synthetic unit hydrographs (SUH) based on geomorphology are used as a tool to produce flood hydrographs from rainfall records, especially in ungauged and partially gauged catchments. This study presents a flood hydrograph model formulated on SUH based approach using geomorphologic parameters derived from Survey of India maps and geographical information system (GIS) techniques to simulate basin runoff. It uses linear Muskingum routing model in which the routing parameters are determined from the kinematic approach rather than from runoff data. The model employs the unit hydrograph suggested by Central Water Commission (CWC) India, as the discharge data from the sub-catchments and routes the concurrent discharges generated from them to the watershed outlet, and compared with the unit hydrograph of the lumped catchment. Application of the model is demonstrated by using data of a small watershed in the Mahanadi basin, India. The study indicates the limitations of the CWC unit hydrograph approach both in the small hilly and large plane catchments. It is observed that the CWC unit hydrograph (UH) underestimates the peak discharges both for catchments smaller than 200 km 2 with steeper slope and larger than 600 km 2 with flatter slope. The study further emphasizes on using two parameter Gamma distribution for preparation of UH curve instead of adopting standard practice of drawing synthetic unit hydrograph using seven known points with approximate curve fitting. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Suggested Citation

  • M. Bhuyan & Sanjay Kumar & Joygopal Jena & P. Bhunya, 2015. "Flood Hydrograph with Synthetic Unit Hydrograph Routing," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 29(15), pages 5765-5782, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:waterr:v:29:y:2015:i:15:p:5765-5782
    DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-1145-1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11269-015-1145-1
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s11269-015-1145-1?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jasem Al-Humoud & Ismail Esen, 2006. "Approximate Methods for the Estimation of Muskingum Flood Routing Parameters," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 20(6), pages 979-990, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. John Reimer & Chin Wu, 2016. "Development and Application of a Nowcast and Forecast System Tool for Planning and Managing a River Chain of Lakes," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 30(4), pages 1375-1393, March.
    2. John R. Reimer & Chin H. Wu, 2016. "Development and Application of a Nowcast and Forecast System Tool for Planning and Managing a River Chain of Lakes," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 30(4), pages 1375-1393, March.
    3. Long Duc Nguyen & Divas Karimanzira & Thomas Rauschenbach & Lars Ribbe, 2016. "Design and Application of an Adaptive Time Delay Model for Flow Routing in Prismatic Trapezoidal Geometry River Reach," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 30(15), pages 5687-5698, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Wang Zhang & Pan Liu & Xizhen Chen & Li Wang & Xueshan Ai & Maoyuan Feng & Dedi Liu & Yuanyuan Liu, 2016. "Optimal Operation of Multi-reservoir Systems Considering Time-lags of Flood Routing," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 30(2), pages 523-540, January.
    2. Liao, Shengli & Liu, Huan & Liu, Zhanwei & Liu, Benxi & Li, Gang & Li, Shushan, 2021. "Medium-term peak shaving operation of cascade hydropower plants considering water delay time," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 406-417.
    3. Zhongbo Zhang & Xiaoyan He & Simin Geng & Shuanghu Zhang & Liuqian Ding & Guangyuan Kan & Hui Li & Xiaoming Jiang, 2018. "An Improved “Dynamic Control Operation Module” for Cascade Reservoirs," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 32(2), pages 449-464, January.
    4. Jalal Bazargan & Hadi Norouzi, 2018. "Investigation the Effect of Using Variable Values for the Parameters of the Linear Muskingum Method Using the Particle Swarm Algorithm (PSO)," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 32(14), pages 4763-4777, November.
    5. Wang Zhang & Pan Liu & Xizhen Chen & Li Wang & Xueshan Ai & Maoyuan Feng & Dedi Liu & Yuanyuan Liu, 2016. "Optimal Operation of Multi-reservoir Systems Considering Time-lags of Flood Routing," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 30(2), pages 523-540, January.
    6. D. Nagesh Kumar & Falguni Baliarsingh & K. Srinivasa Raju, 2010. "Optimal Reservoir Operation for Flood Control Using Folded Dynamic Programming," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 24(6), pages 1045-1064, April.
    7. Jionghong Chen & Shenglian Guo & Yu Li & Pan Liu & Yanlai Zhou, 2013. "Joint Operation and Dynamic Control of Flood Limiting Water Levels for Cascade Reservoirs," Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), Springer;European Water Resources Association (EWRA), vol. 27(3), pages 749-763, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:waterr:v:29:y:2015:i:15:p:5765-5782. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.