Coupling HEC-HMS with Atmospheric Models for Prediction of Watershed Runoff
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
- Vol. 7 (4), 312-318
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)1084-0699(2002)7:4(312)
Abstract
The operation of reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California for flood control relies on forecasts of reservoir inflows. In the past, accurate forecasts of the reservoir inflows resulting from watershed runoff have been made, but only after the water has entered the main channel. During flooding events, this limits the amount of time available for the implementation of emergency management procedures. Translating precipitation forecasts into runoff forecasts can greatly improve the runoff-forecast lead time. The operational National Center for Environmental Prediction Eta model provides 48-h-ahead forecasts of precipitation in 6-h intervals in a 40×40km gridded form. In this study, the mesoscale model, MM5, is used to transfer the Eta forecast data down to the appropriate space and time scales required to link the Eta model precipitation forecast results to the watershed model, HEC-HMS, for runoff prediction. An initial diagnostic study of this procedure has been performed on the Calaveras Riv...This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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