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Development of Regional Prediction Equations for the RORB Runoff Routing Model
B.G. Dyer
R.J. Nathan
T.A. McMahon
I.C. O'Neill
Publication Type:
Technical Report
This is a publication of the initial CRC for Catchment Hydrology
CRC Program:
Flood Hydrology (Previous CRC)
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Publication Keywords:
Rainfall/Runoff Relationship
Modelling (Hydrological)
Flood Forecasting
Catchment Areas
Storage Discharge Relationship
Calibration
Regression Analysis
RORB Model
Floods and Flooding
Streams (in Natural Channels)
Stream Flow
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Abstract / Summary:
PREFACE
The Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Catchment Hydrology's research program in flood hydrology has the overall objective:
To improve methods for estimating flood risk and the reliability of flood forecasting, and to advance the understanding of catchment similarity and regional behaviour.
A specific goal is to develop techniques for regionalising and extrapolating catchment information for improved estimates of water yield and floods.
This report by researchers from Parties to the CRC: Ben Dyer (University of Melbourne), Rory Nathan (Rural Water Corporation), Tom McMahon (University of Melbourne), and Ian O'Neill (University of Melbourne) provides a means for using regional information to estimate the main parameter of RORB, a runoff routing model used extensively in Australia for flood estimation.
Adoption of this procedure by practitioners should result in better estimates of design floods on ungauged catchments with RORB than is now possible using parameter estimating equations from Australian Rainfall and Runoff (1987). As such, Dyer et a1 have made an important contribution to flood hydrology.
Russell Mein
Program Leader, Flood Hydrology
Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology
This report will be available for downloading in May 2005.
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