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Cetemps Hydrological Model (CHyM), a Distributed Grid-Based Model Assimilating Different Rainfall Data Sources

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Hydrological Modelling and the Water Cycle

Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library ((WSTL,volume 63))

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Within the activities of Cetemps Center of Excellence of University of L’Aquila, a distributed grid based hydrological model has been developed with the aim to provide a general purpose tool for flood alert mapping. One of the main characteristic of this model is the ability to assimilate different data sources for rebuilding two dimensional rainfall distribution. The model can be used for any geographical domain with any resolution up to the resolution of the implemented Digital Elevation Model, namely about 300 meters in the current implementation. A Cellular Automata based algorithm has been implemented to extract a coherent drainage network scheme for any geographical domain. The algorithm for flow scheme extraction and for the assimilation of different rainfall data sources are described in details too. Several applications of such algorithms are also shown.

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  1. Department of Physics, Centre of Excellence CETEMPS – University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Marco Verdecchia

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  1. Civil Engineering Dept, UCI, E/4130 Engineering Gateway Mail Code 2175, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

    Soroosh Sorooshian  & Kuo-Lin Hsu  & 

  2. Via Vetoio 67010 L’Aquila CETEMPS, University of L’Aquila, Italy

    Erika Coppola , Barbara Tomassetti  & Marco Verdecchia ,  & 

  3. Dipto. Fisica INFN Unit Via Vetoio, 10 67010 L’Aquila, Universita L’Aquila, Italy

    Guido Visconti

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Verdecchia, M., Coppola, E., Tomassetti, B., Visconti, G. (2009). Cetemps Hydrological Model (CHyM), a Distributed Grid-Based Model Assimilating Different Rainfall Data Sources. In: Sorooshian, S., Hsu, KL., Coppola, E., Tomassetti, B., Verdecchia, M., Visconti, G. (eds) Hydrological Modelling and the Water Cycle. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77843-1_8

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