Generalization of SCS Curve Number Method
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 115, Issue 1
Abstract
Because of problems that arise in the use of the SCS curve number method of runoff estimation, the generalization thereof is suggested by returning to the original SCS model. For runoff volume estimations two alternative graphs as general solutions to the SCS model are presented, without converting the storage factor S into curve number, and without taking the initial abstraction /Ia/ as a fixed portion of S.
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 115 • Issue 1 • February 1989
Pages: 139 - 144
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Copyright © 1989 ASCE.
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Published online: Feb 1, 1989
Published in print: Feb 1989
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