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HYDROLOGIC SIMULATION OF THE BRANDYWINE BASIN 1
Author(s) -
Huang ShuLi,
Keenan John D.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-1688.1987.tb00819.x
Subject(s) - hydrological modelling , structural basin , environmental science , hydrology (agriculture) , drainage basin , vflo , simulation modeling , precipitation , water resources , resource (disambiguation) , computer science , geology , meteorology , geography , runoff curve number , climatology , geomorphology , ecology , computer network , geotechnical engineering , cartography , economics , biology , microeconomics
ABSTRACT: A deterministic hydrologic model, encompassing the hydrologic regime and all water uses, is developed by integrating empirical hydrologic relationships. The Brandywine Basin, located in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware, is used as an example to demonstrate this modeling effort. The basin is divided into 19 subwatersheds to account for the spatial variation of resource characteristics. The output of the model is the response of the hydrologic system to various inputs such as precipitation, land use characteristics and policy decisions. This modeling effort is applicable to watersheds similar to the Brandywine Basin in size, and once the model is developed and validated, can be applied continuously in the management and planning of water resources such as predicting the hydrologic effects of proposed projects and simulating hydrologic information.