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Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS

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Infiltration rate excess and saturation rate excess runoff are dominant processes in many watersheds. Estimation of infiltration parameters over large areas poses a challenge to distributed watershed modeling. Accuracy may vary depending on how well the soil maps represent the soil and the hydrologic conditions controlling the process across scales from field to watershed. How the soil properties are represented in the distributed model, its configuration as single or multiple layers, can affect the accuracy and reliability of hydrologic prediction. This chapter deals with deriving initial values of infiltration equation parameters from maps of soil properties.

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    Baxter E. Vieux

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Vieux, B.E. (2016). Infiltration. In: Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0930-7_5

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