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HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
Volume 22, Issue 21, Pages 4205-4213Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7023
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- University of Washington
- Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
- NOAA Cooperative Agreement [NA17RJ1232]
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Some relatively straightforward modifications to the Distributed Hydrology-Soil-Vegetation Model (DHSVM) we described that allow it to represent Urban) hydrological processes. In the modified model precipitation that falls on impervious surfaces becomes surface runoff, and a spatially varying (depending on land cover) fraction of surface runoff is connected directly to the stream channel, with the remainder stored and slowly released to represent the effects of storm water detention. The model was evaluated through application to Springbrook Creek watershed in a partially urbanized area of King County, Washington. With calibration, the modified DHSVM simulates hourly streamflow from these urbanized catchments quite well. It is also shown how the revised model can be used to study the effects of continuing urbanization in the much larger Puget Sound basin. Model simulations confirm many previous studies in showing that urbanization increases peak flows and their frequency, and decreases peak flow lag times. the results show show the urbanization parameterizations for DHSVM facilitate use of the model for prediction and/or reconstruction of a range of historic and future changes in land cover that will accompany urbanization as well as other forms of vegetation change. Copyright (c) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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