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Multisite daily flow generator
Author(s) -
Pentland R. L.,
Cuthbert D. R.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
water resources research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 217
eISSN - 1944-7973
pISSN - 0043-1397
DOI - 10.1029/wr009i002p00470
Subject(s) - tributary , hydrograph , hydrology (agriculture) , streamflow , environmental science , flood myth , flow (mathematics) , flood control , geology , geography , drainage basin , geotechnical engineering , mathematics , cartography , geometry , archaeology
In studies of upstream storage for flood control, recorded streamflow sequences are often of insufficient duration for acceptable reservoir design. This is particularly true if reservoir sites on several tributaries are being investigated, because the main stream peak flow may be the product of any one of an infinite array of potential hydrograph shapes on the tributaries. A daily flow generation model to synthesize correlated flood hydrographs on the main stem and tributaries of a large river system has been developed and tested in this investigation.