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Flood Hydrology Manual: A Water Resource Technical Publication

A.C. Gudworth

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CHAPTER 1. BACKGROUND AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

1.1 Background 

1.2 Historical procedures

(a) Arkansas River

(b) Pecos River

(c) Plum Creek

(d) Sun River

(e) Ware River

1.3 Hydrometeorologic approach

 CHAPTER 2. BASIC HYDROLOGIC AND METEOROLOGIC DATA

2.1 General considerations

2.2 Hydrologic data

(a) Recorded streamflow data

(b) Indirect discharge measurements

2.3 Meteorologic data

(a) Systematic data acquisition

(b) Supplemental meteorologic data acquisition or bucket surveys

2.4 Field reconnaissance of drainage basins for flood hydrology studies

(a.) General

(b) Participation in field reconnaissance

(c) Field observations

2.5 Examining nearby basins that have experienced significant recorded floods

CHAPTER 3. HYDROMETEOROLOGY

3.1 General considerations and background 

3.2 Atmospheric processes

(a) Atmospheric moisture

(b) Lifting mechanism

(c) Condensation 

(d) Water droplet-ice crystal growth

3.3 Derivation of PMS

(a) Storm maximization approach

(b) Model technique

(c) Individual drainage estimates and regionalized studies

(d) HMR 51, 52, and 53

(e) HMR 55A

(f) HMR 36

(g) HMR 43

(h) HMR 49   

(I) Summary

3.4 Distributions of PMS

(a) Temporal

(b) Spatial

 

CHAPTER 4 FLOOD HYDROGRAPH DETERMINATIONS

4.1 Flood runoff from rainfall

(a) General

(b) Basic unit hydrograph concept

(c) Unit hydrograph lag time

(d) Temporal distribution of unit runoff

(e) Development of synthetic unit hydrographs

(f) Dimensionless unit hydrograph or S-graph selection

(g) Computing synthetic unit hydrograph ordinates

(h) Observed flood hydrograph reconstitutions

(i) Hydrograph reconstitution procedure 

(j) Infiltration and other losses

(k) Base flow and interflow

4.2 Probable maximum flood hydrograph

4.3 Western Mountain snowmelt equation

4.4 Antecedent floods

4.5 Foss Dam example

 

CHAPTER 5. FLOOD ROUTING THROUGH RESERVOIRS AND RIVER CHANNELS

5.1 General considerations

5.2 Reservoir flood routings

5.3 Techniques for routing floods through river channels

5.4 Successive Average Lag Method

(a) Basis of method

(b) Routing constants and routing procedures

5.5 Modified Puls Method

5.6 Modified Wilson Method

5.7 Muskingum Routing Method

(a) Determination of K constant

(b) Determination of X

(c) Selection of reach lengths  

5.8 Foss Dam example

 

CHAPTER 6. ENVELOPE CURVES OF RECORDED FLOOD DISCHARGES

6.1 General considerations

6.2 Sources of data

6.3 Procedure

 

CHAPTER 7. STATISTICS AND PROBABILITIES

7.2 Introduction

7.2 Hydrologic data samples

(a) Type of data

(b) Data sources

(c) Data analysis

(d) Accuracy of data Frequency distributions

(a) Concepts and philosophy

(b) Forms of presentation

(c) Probability distributions

(d) Parameter estimation

7.4 Log-Pearson Type III distribution

(a) Adoption by Federal agencies

(b) Form

(c) Shape

(d) Advantages

(e) Disadvantages

(f) Fitting procedure

(g) Generalized skew

(h) Outlier criteria

(i) Adjustments

7.5 Example application using Bulletin 17B

7.6 Limitations on frequency curve extrapolation

7.7 Mixed populations

(a) Causative meteorological factors

(b) Types of mixed populations

(c) Separation of data

(d) Combined frequency curves

7.8 Volume analysis

(a) Balanced flood hydrograph

(b) Fixed interval analysis

7.9 Probability relationships for ungauged areas

(a) Transposition of frequency data

(b) Regional flood frequency

(c) Frequency analysis from synthetic data

7.10 General trends in frequency relationships

7.11 Foss Dam example

7.12 Example on mixed population analyses

 

CHAPTER 8. FLOOD STUDY AND FIELD RECONNAISSANCE REPORTS

8.1 General

8.2 Specific contents of a flood study report

(a) Authority

(b) Summary of results

(c) General background

(d) Description of drainage basin

(e) Historical floods

(f) Hydrometeorological analysis

(g) Unit hydrograph 

(h) Infiltration loss rates

(i) Base flow and interflow

(j) Snowmelt runoff

(k) Antecedent flood

(1) Flood hydrograph routings

(m) Reservoir routing criteria

(n) PMF Hydrograph

(o) Envelope curves

(p) Discharge-probability analyses

8.3 Field reconnaissance report

Bibliography

Index

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