A Unified Hydrologic Framework for Flood Design Estimation in Ungauged Basins

Autor: Lampros Vasiliades, George Papaioannou, Athanasios Loukas
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Environmental Sciences Proceedings, Vol 25, Iss 1, p 40 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-4931
DOI: 10.3390/ECWS-7-14194
Popis: Design flood hydrograph estimation is a key problem in hydrology and is necessary for a variety of applications from the design of hydraulic structures to flood risk mapping processes. Furthermore, in large ungauged basins (>1000 km2), design flood estimation methods mainly rely on single-event theories using digital elevation models, land use/land cover and soil type data, and relevant meteorological information (temperature and rainfall data). The single event-based deterministic approach was adopted based on three modelling components: (i) a synthetic storm generator; (ii) a hydrological simulation model; and (iii) a hydrological routing model. In this study the 100-year design flood (which is assumed equal to 100-year extreme rainfall) was estimated for the Pinios River Basin, Thessaly, Greece, at Larissa outlet station (upstream of the area by about 6500 km2). The hydrological approach is based on semi-distributed modelling of the rainfall–run-off process (at the sub-basin scale) using HEC-HMS v.4.10 software and the SCS-CN method for estimating rainfall excess, as well as the unit hydrograph theory and the Muskingum hydrological flow routing method for propagating the surface run-off to the sub-basin outlets.
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