SYNTHETIC UNIT HYDROGRAPH PROCEDURES IN URBAN HYDROLOGY

Synthetic unit hydrograph procedures provide a convenient means of estimating the increasing stormwater runoff from a catchment that is undergoing urban development. There are two basic approaches to the synthetic unit hydrograph techniques: the "analysis" approach, relating unit hydrograph characteristics directly to catchment parameters and the, "synthesis" aproach, correlating the coefficients of a linear conceptual model with catchment and storm parameters. The application of both these procedures to urban catchments in south-east England has shown that both methods have their advantages but the analysis approach most consistently reproduces the unit hydrographs of these particular catchments.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the National Symposium on Urban Hydrology and Sediment Control, July 28-31, 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  Department of Civil Engineering
  176 Raymond Building
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506-0281
• Authors:
  • Bleek, J
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the National Symposium on Urban Hydrology and Sediment Control, July 28-31, 1975.
• Publication Date: 1975-11

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 149-159

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Chemical synthesis; Drainage; Drainage basins; Estimates; Hydrology; Runoff; Syntheses; Unit hydrographs; Urban areas; Urban development
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00135895
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UKY BU109
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1976 12:00AM