TY - GEN
T1 - Watershed slope lower bounds for hydrologic methods
AU - Cleveland, Theodore G.
AU - Fang, Xing
AU - Li, Ming Han
AU - Thompson, David B.
AU - Asquith, William H.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Engineers design a substantial fraction portion of infrastructure that accommodates storm water drainage and conveyance. Estimation models of the response for a watershed typically contain some form of watershed slope as a principal parameter, and the response is usually inversely proportional to that slope. Therefore, as topographic slope decreases, the watershed timing parameter increases. The consequences at low enough slope, is that the timing parameters approach infinite time and the precipitation intensity that is associated with a long averaging time is so small as to be meaningless - yet low slope environments exist, are populated, and precipitation does generate runoff.
AB - Engineers design a substantial fraction portion of infrastructure that accommodates storm water drainage and conveyance. Estimation models of the response for a watershed typically contain some form of watershed slope as a principal parameter, and the response is usually inversely proportional to that slope. Therefore, as topographic slope decreases, the watershed timing parameter increases. The consequences at low enough slope, is that the timing parameters approach infinite time and the precipitation intensity that is associated with a long averaging time is so small as to be meaningless - yet low slope environments exist, are populated, and precipitation does generate runoff.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84866116470&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784412312.064
DO - 10.1061/9780784412312.064
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866116470
SN - 9780784412312
T3 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries, Proceedings of the 2012 Congress
SP - 603
EP - 618
BT - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012
T2 - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2012: Crossing Boundaries
Y2 - 20 May 2012 through 24 May 2012
ER -