Coupled surface runoff and subsurface flow model for catchment simulations
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Data
1999
Autori
Bixio, Anna Chiara
Orlandini, Stefano
Paniconi, Claudio
Putti, Mario
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Wageningen Press
Abstract
A distributed catchment scale numerical model for the simulation of coupled surface
runoff and subsurface flow is presented. Starting from rainfall (evaporation) records, the model first determines the infiltration (exfiltration) rates in the soil, by evaluation of the soil field capacity at the specific conditions as calculated from the three-dimensional solution of the variably-saturated groundwater flow model (Richards’ equation). The flow rate that remains or returns to the surface, the so called overland flow, is then routed via a diffusion wave surface runoff model based on a Muskingum-Cunge scheme with variable parameters. Both hillslope and channel flow are described, and a special algorithm is used for the simulation of pools/lakes effects on storm-flow response.
The importance of including detailed subsurface flow description in catchment
simulations is shown on a simple testcase characterized by the presence of a central
depression.
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Richards equation , digital elevation model (DEM) , catchment scale , rainfall