CEE 6440 GIS in WATER RESOURCES Program to Generate Stream Network Width Function By Anurag Nayak
Channel Network Width Function x x The number of channels at a distance x from the outlet Source: http://www.engineering.usu.edu/cee/faculty/dtarb/hydrogis/italy4.ppt
Use of width function in hydrology: Width function based instantaneous unit hydrograph generation RIGON et al.:Getting the Rescaled Width Function and the Derived WGIUH To model the response of stream network.
CALCULATION OF NETWORK RESPONSE FUNCTION FROM NWF NRF is calculated from the NWF and a routing function using velocity (A m/s) and diffusion (D m2/s) coefficients Routing Function (parameters A and D) LINKS RESPONSE = * DISTANCE TIME NWF NRF http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~plewis/b1002/hydro/RSandHYDROLOGY.ppt#12 University college London, Department of Geomatic Engineering
CALCULATION OF PREDICTED RIVER FLOWS Hydrological model used to produce ‘generated runoff’ from precipitation, where ‘generated runoff’ is that portion of precipitation which enters the channel network * FLOW = RESPONSE RUNOFF TIME TIME TIME PREDICTED FLOW NRF RUNOFF
Stream Network of Logan River
Input Files: 1: Link Number 2: Start Point Number 3: End Point Number 4: DSLink Number 5&6: USLink Number 7: Order of Link 8: Monitoring Point Identifier 1: X Coordinate 2: Y Coordinate 3: Distance along channels to DS Termial link 4: Elevation 5: Contributing Area
Programming Logic Read input files tree.dat and coord.dat. Calculate the stream length of each link. Calculate downstream distance to the outlet. DSLength(Link) = Length(DSLink)+ DSLength(DSLink) Width Function at any distance x is defined as the number of links for which DSLength(Link) < x < DSLength(Link) + Length(Link)
Generated Width Function for Logan River
Stream Network of Bear River
Generated Width Function for Bear River WaterShed
Future Possibilities Can be added as a tool in TauDEM to analyze stream network response.
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