DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODELING USING GIS

By C. JOOND

CONTENTS 1 DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODELING INTRODUCTION WHY DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODELING? DISTRIBUTED MODEL REPRESENTATION MATHEMATICAL ANALOGY GIS DATA STRUCTURES AND SOURCES SURFACE GENERATION SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND INFORMATION CONTENT RUNOFF PROCESSES HYDRAULIC ROUGHNESS 1 10 DRAINAGE NETWORKS AND RESOLUTION 1 11 SPATIALLY VARIABLE PRECIPITATION 1 12 DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL FORMULATION 1 13 DISTRIBUTED MODEL CALIBRATION 1 14 CASE STUDIES 1 15 HYDROLOGIC ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION 1 16 SUMMARY 1 17 REFERENCES 2 DATA SOURCES AND STRUCTURE DIMENSIONALITY MAP SCALE AND SPATIAL DETAIL DATUM AND SCALE GEOREFERENCED COORDINATE SYSTEMS MAP PROJECTIONS DATA REPRESENTATION WATERSHED DELINEATION SOIL CLASSIFICATION 1 10 LAND USE/COVER CLASSIFICATION 1 11 SUMMARY 1 12 REFERENCES 3 SURFACE GENERATION SURFACE GENERATORS SURFACE GENERATION APPLICATION SUMMARY REFERENCES 4 SPATIAL VARIABILITY INFORMATION CONTENT FRACTAL INTERPRETATION RESOLUTION EFFECTS ON DEMS REFERENCES 6 HYDRAULIC ROUGHNESS HYDRAULICS OF SURFACE RUNOFF APPLICATION TO THE ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN 7 DIGITAL TERRAIN DRAINAGE NETWORK DEFINITION OF CHANNEL NETWORKS RESOLUTION DEPENDENT EFFECTS CONSTRAINING DRAINAGE DIRECTION 8 PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT RAIN GAUGE ESTIMATION OF RAINFALL RADAR ESTIMATION OF PRECIPITATION WSR-88D RADAR CHARACTERISTICS INPUT FOR HYDROLOGIC MODELING 9 FINITE ELEMENT MODELING MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION 10 DISTRIBUTED MODEL CALIBRATION CALIBRATION APPROACH DISTRIBUTED MODEL CALIBRATION AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION 11 DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODELING CASE STUDIES 12 HYDROLOGIC ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION VFLO™ EDITIONS VFLO™ FEATURES AND MODULES MODEL FEATURE SUMMARY VFLO™ REAL-TIME DATA REQUIREMENTS RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER MODELS