Improved Storm Duration and Antecedent Moisture Condition Coupled SCS-CN Concept-Based Model
Publication: Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 17, Issue 11
Abstract
The Soil Conservation Service curve number (SCS-CN) method is a well-recognized technique for the estimation of direct surface runoff from a rainfall event. Most of the recently developed SCS-CN–based models including the original one ignore the effect of storm duration or rainfall intensity on surface runoff, an important aspect of the rainfall-runoff model. Some of these models have, however, included the antecedent moisture conditions. In this study, storm duration is incorporated in a recently modified version of the SCS-CN method to derive a more advanced model. This version is found to perform generally better than the other on the data of 60 small U.S. watersheds. The former model performed significantly better than the latter on the watersheds dominated by silty soils and cultivated land uses.
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the editors for their thoughtful and constructive comments, USDA-ARS for making its water database available on its website, and Prof. R.H. Hawkins for making edited data available.
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Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Volume 17 • Issue 11 • November 2012
Pages: 1173 - 1179
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© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Aug 26, 2010
Accepted: May 25, 2011
Published online: Oct 15, 2012
Published in print: Nov 1, 2012
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