Grid‐Based Application of Runoff Curve Numbers
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
- Vol. 114 (6) , 601-612
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9496(1988)114:6(601)
Abstract
The development and validation of a methodological approach to predicting runoff over large regions is considered. The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) runoff curve number procedure is modified to allow for areal variation of land use and land cover, soils, and rainfall over a regular‐gridded network. Ten rainfall events, from the period 1973–1980, are selected to estimate runoff for the Mahantango Creek Watershed in east‐central Pennsylvania. The method may be useful in generating a geographic information system database for distributed‐components hydrologic models and for water resources management.
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