Journal article
Flood analysis in DuPage county using hydrological simulation program—FORTRAN model
Transportation research record, Vol.1471, pp.41-46
1994
Abstract
Most counties across the United States use design storm approaches with single-event rainfall-runoff models and steady-state hydraulic models for flood analysis and design. DuPage County, Illinois, has recently adopted a different approach. A continuous simulation model, the Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN model, has been used to simulate 40 years of runoff for 35 land segments that represent the variations in land cover conditions and historical precipitation across the county. Engineers use the runoff as input to the full equations model, an unsteady flow model, to simulate county streams. Results
from these simulations are used to estimate flood probabilities by a new statistical technique. DuPage County has taken this new approach to deal with the complicated flood design and analysis problems that exist in its large and urbanizing watersheds.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Flood analysis in DuPage county using hydrological simulation program—FORTRAN model
- Creators
- Allen Bradley (Author) - University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental EngineeringKenneth Potter (Author)Thomas Price (Author)Paula Cooper (Author)Jon Steffen (Author)Delbert Franz (Author)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Transportation research record, Vol.1471, pp.41-46
- ISSN
- 2169-4052
- eISSN
- 0361-1981
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1994
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984572772402771
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