✦ LIBER ✦
A geomorphologic kinematic-wave (GKW) model for estimation of floods from small alpine watersheds
✍ Scribed by Dominique D. Bérod; Vijay P. Singh; Andre Musy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 495 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6087
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✦ Synopsis
A geomorphologic kinematic-wave (GKW) model was developed for simulation of extreme ¯oods from small alpine catchments. The GKW model couples the kinematic-wave theory and the geomorphologic representation of the catchment based on the Horton±Strahler ordering scheme. The model was tested on two small alpine catchments in Switzerland, and the agreement between simulated and observed ¯oods was good. Care must however be taken with the computation of slope and roughness parameters.