Adequacy of Nakagami- Distribution Function to Derive GIUH
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 14, Issue 10
Abstract
Nash and Clark based geomorphological instanteneous unit hydrograph (GIUH) approach proved its usefulness to compute the synthetic unit hydrograph (SUH) and in turn the direct surface runoff component for ungauged catchments. In recent development, two-parameter Weibull’s distribution, coupled with Horton’s ratio, was used to derive the SUH. In continuation with these innovations, present study was conducted to test the adequacy of two-parameter Nakagami- distribution to derive the GIUH along with two-parameter logistic, two-parameter Weibull, and two-parameter gamma distributions (Nash model). Nakagami- distribution approach was first tested on the published data and then used to develop the GIUH for Bhagirathi-Bhilangana River catchment. Based on the results of comparison with other approaches, it seems that Nakagami- distribution-based GIUH can be a good substitute to other existing approaches.
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Acknowledgments
The writers thank Dr. R. K. Rai (Water Resources Consultant) and Dr. Alka Upadhyay (Environment Consultant), DHI (India) Water, Environment and Health, New Delhi (India), and Mr. Aniruddha Chandra, M.E (Communication Engineering), Lecturer, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal for their constructive suggestions to improve the quality of the paper. The writers thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions to improve the quality of the paper
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 14 • Issue 10 • October 2009
Pages: 1070 - 1079
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Received: Sep 3, 2008
Accepted: Feb 19, 2009
Published online: Feb 21, 2009
Published in print: Oct 2009
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