The relation of hydrographs of runoff to size and character of drainage-basins
Abstract
In a previous paper entitled “stream-flow from rainfall by unit method” (Eng. News-Record, April 7, 1932), the writer defined a unit graph as the hydrograph of runoff from a given area, due to a one-inch runoff-depth applied in one day or in any other convenient unit of time. A procedure for deriving the unit graph from observed rainfall- and runoff-records was presented. After the unit graph has been derived a runoff-record for the given area, for any rain or series of rains, may be computed by a simple summation process. Figure 1, from the aforesaid paper, graphically illustrates the summation process and it will not be described further here.
- Publication:
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Transactions, American Geophysical Union
- Pub Date:
- 1932
- DOI:
- 10.1029/TR013i001p00332
- Bibcode:
- 1932TrAGU..13..332S