Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins

Synthesis across Processes, Places and Scales

Günter Blöschl, Murugesu Sivapalan, Thorsten Wagener, Alberto Viglione, Hubert Savenije

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107028180
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107069831
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Hydrology

Predicting water runoff in ungauged water catchment areas is vital to practical applications such as the design of drainage infrastructure and flooding defences, runoff forecasting, and for catchment management tasks such as water allocation and climate impact analysis. This full colour book offers an impressive synthesis of decades of international research, forming a holistic approach to catchment hydrology and providing a one-stop resource for hydrologists in both developed and developing countries. Topics include data for runoff regionalisation, the prediction of runoff hydrographs, flow duration curves, flow paths and residence times, annual and seasonal runoff, and floods. Illustrated with many case studies and including a final chapter on recommendations for researchers and practitioners, this book is written by expert authors involved in the prestigious IAHS PUB initiative. It is a key resource for academic researchers and professionals in the fields of hydrology, hydrogeology, ecology, geography, soil science, and environmental and civil engineering.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A synthesis framework for runoff prediction in ungauged basins
• 3 A data acquisition framework for runoff prediction in ungauged basins
• 4 Process realism: flow paths and storage
• 5 Prediction of annual runoff in ungauged basins
• 6 Prediction of seasonal runoff in ungauged basins
• 7 Prediction of flow duration curves in ungauged basins
• 8 Prediction of low flows in ungauged basins
• 9 Prediction of floods in ungauged basins
• 10 Prediction of runoff hydrographs in ungauged basins
• 11 PUB in practice: case studies
• 12 Outcomes of synthesis
• 13 Recommendations
• Appendix Summary of studies used in the comparative assessments
• References
• Index