Date of Award:
5-1970
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department name when degree awarded
Water Resources Engineering
Committee Chair(s)
Joel E. Fletcher
Committee
Joel E. Fletcher
Committee
Professor Riley
Abstract
Runoff and rainfall data have been taken from three high mountain Utah watersheds and subjected to runoff to rainfall comparisons. The resulting Q/P ratios have been compared to the average volumes of runoff curve numbers (CN) computed from this data for each watershed. Runoff curve numbers were also estimated on the basis of the soils and vegetation data available for the watersheds.
An attempt has been made to estimate the watershed lag characteristics by computing synthetic hydrographs for successively larger values of time to peak estimates until the best fit comparison was achieved between the snythetic and the actual hydrographs. Time lag estimates were also made from the Kirpich method and the Mockus method.
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Recommended Citation
Walker, Clive H., "Estimating the Rainfall-Runoff Characteristics of Selected Small Utah Watersheds" (1970). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 3109.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3109
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