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HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages 843-862Publisher
IAHS PRESS, INST HYDROLOGY
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.52.5.843
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event-based runoff coefficient; hydrograph separation; baseflow; linear statistical model; rainfall-runoff response; Chile
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Event-based runoff coefficients can provide information on watershed response. They are useful for catchment comparison to understand how different landscapes filter rainfall into event-based runoff and to explain the observed differences with catchment characteristics and related runoff mechanisms. However, the big drawback of this important parameter is the lack of a standard hydrograph separation method preceding its calculation. Event-based runoff coefficients determined with four well-established separation methods, as well as a newly developed separation method, are compared and PF are shown to differ considerably. This signifies that runoff coefficients reported in the literature often convey less information than required to allow for catchment classification. The new separation technique (constant-k method) is based on the theory of linear storage. Its advantages are that it is theoretically based in determining the end point of an event and that it can also be applied to events with multiple peaks. Furthermore, it is shown that event-based runoff coefficients in combination with simple statistical models improve our understanding of rainfall-runoff response of catchments with sparse data.
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