An analysis was performed of the usefulness of representing basin response to rainfall by averaging the channel network geometry on the basis of the Horton/Strahler ordering scheme. Such an approach was applied to actual and synthetic events over large Italian basins and its results compared with those obtained by classical methods. It is pointed out that this approach is unsuitable if the spatial variability of effective rainfall is incorporated. However, its use seems to be practical and appropriate in describing basin response in terms of a unit hydrograph, particularly for ungauged basins.
Basin geomorphology-river response through the Horton-Strahler ordering scheme
CORRADINI, Corrado;
1986
Abstract
An analysis was performed of the usefulness of representing basin response to rainfall by averaging the channel network geometry on the basis of the Horton/Strahler ordering scheme. Such an approach was applied to actual and synthetic events over large Italian basins and its results compared with those obtained by classical methods. It is pointed out that this approach is unsuitable if the spatial variability of effective rainfall is incorporated. However, its use seems to be practical and appropriate in describing basin response in terms of a unit hydrograph, particularly for ungauged basins.File in questo prodotto:
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