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Application And National Geographic Information System Database To Support Two-Year Flood And Threshold Runoff Estimates, Seann Reed, Dennis Johnson, Timothy Sweeney
Application And National Geographic Information System Database To Support Two-Year Flood And Threshold Runoff Estimates, Seann Reed, Dennis Johnson, Timothy Sweeney
United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications
A computer application and national geospatial database have been developed to support the calculation of flooding flow (Qf) and threshold runoff across the conterminous United States and Alaska. Flooding flow is the flow required to cause a stream to slightly overflow its bank and cause damage. Threshold runoff [L], defined as the depth of runoff required to cause flooding, is computed as flooding flow divided by the unit hydrograph peak flow. A key assumption in this work is that the two-year return flood (Q2) is a useful surrogate for flooding flow. The application described here computes …