scholarly journals A Method for Dynamical Sub-Watershed Delimitating by No-Fill Digital Elevation Model and Defined Precipitation: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 486
Author(s):  
Hongping Zhang ◽  
Xinwen Cheng ◽  
Lei Jin ◽  
Dong Zhao ◽  
Tianjing Feng ◽  
...  

Watershed delimitation is very important in flood control management. The traditional sub-watersheds delimitated by a filling digital elevation model (DEM) may change the real sink area, such that it may not be the best choice in studies sensitive to sub-watershed storage. This paper proposes a dynamical watershed delimitation method using a no-fill DEM and precipitation. It considers a closed sink area containing cells that fully flow into a large special cell, which can flow out when its water level is “higher than outlet”. We took Wuhan City as a study area and defined the precipitation in return periods of 1, 5, 20, or 100 years to derive the sub-watersheds. It is found that, in the four delimitations, the ratio of isolated basic units which could not flow outside were 27%, 9%, 5%, and 1%, respectively, as the precipitation increased. The results show that the provided method satisfies the assumption that the sink area might overflow with increased precipitation. The sub-watershed delimitated by the proposed method has higher correlation with the distribution of waterlogging points than those delimitated according to the D8 algorithm. These findings indicate that the proposed method can derive reasonable sub-watershed delimitation and that it may be helpful in the practice of urban flood control management.

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Shekhar Dubey ◽  
Manoj Chaudhry ◽  
Braj Kishore Sharma ◽  
Arvind Chandra Pandey ◽  
Bhoop Singh

Measurement ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 276-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Kršák ◽  
P. Blišťan ◽  
A. Pauliková ◽  
P. Puškárová ◽  
Ľ. Kovanič ◽  
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Author(s):  
Michał Wasilewski ◽  
Jarosław Chormański

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Digital Elevation Model as an alternative data source for deriving hydrological characteristics in lowland catchment — Rogożynek catchment case study This paper describes possibility of supplementing digital topography data needed for hydrologic modeling (WetSpa model) of lowland catchment with existing, freely available DEM data obtained from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission launched on February 11th, 2000. Rogożynek basin (Upper Biebrza) as case study is given. Authors compared three DEMs: topographic — TOPO DEM 20 (20 m resolution), radar — SRTM DEM 90 (90 m res.) and resampled radar — SRTM DEM 20 (20 m res.). There were several characteristics compared and analyzed like: relative height differences, slopes, generated river network and generated subwatersheds (subbasins).


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