Relative Importance of Hydrological and Sediment-Transport Characteristics Affecting Effective Discharge of Small Urban Streams in Southern Ontario
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 14, Issue 7
Abstract
Effective discharge is an important design variable used in stream restoration design. of a stream reach is affected by both the hydrological characteristics of the upstream watershed and the sediment-transport characteristics of the stream reach. This study identified the most critical hydrological and sediment-transport characteristics affecting of small urban streams in southern Ontario. Continuous simulation of hypothetical watersheds was conducted to generate hourly streamflow data. and other related variables of interest were determined based on simulated streamflow series and randomly generated sediment-transport rating curve parameters. Global sensitivity analysis using samples of input and output data indicated that is highly sensitive to, first, the exponent of the sediment rating curve ; second, the watershed storage coefficient reflecting the storage characteristics of a watershed; and third, the time of concentration of a watershed. Further, this study showed that only when values are within a specific range, and the discharge corresponding to a particular return period are close to each other.
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Acknowledgments
The writers gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the government of Ontario through its Ontario Graduate Scholarship program. The writers also thank Dr. Stefano Tarantola of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission for helpful suggestions and for allowing the use of SIMLAB, the global sensitivity analysis software.
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 14 • Issue 7 • July 2009
Pages: 698 - 710
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Received: Aug 27, 2007
Accepted: Oct 27, 2008
Published online: Feb 12, 2009
Published in print: Jul 2009
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