<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of this paper is to set up the model describing the depletion runoff process when a catchment is supplied only from subsurface water sources and also to describe a transpiration effect when depleted mostly by riparian vegetation considering it as a diurnal process in hot and rainless period. This model is conceived as a simple linear description of all forms of subsurface runoff supplying the stream flow in fully forested the Teply Brook small catchment (district Zdar nad Sazavou, the Czech Republic) for the dry seasons of 2003 to 2007 when the discharges were continuously recorded at the outlet. There are three interconnected soil water zones, represented by the corresponding subsurface storages in the model. Actual evapotranspiration from the riparian part of the catchment is approximated by a special form of the Fourier series. The model simulates a runoff process using seven independent parameters, evapotranspiration is simulated through another four parameters. The paper points out how the model can be successfully implemented in the simulation of diurnal discharge fluctuation on the small forested experimental catchment in dry periods.</p></abstract>

The aim of this paper is to set up the model describing the depletion runoff process when a catchment is supplied only from subsurface water sources and also to describe a transpiration effect when depleted mostly by riparian vegetation considering it as a diurnal process in hot and rainless period. This model is conceived as a simple linear description of all forms of subsurface runoff supplying the stream flow in fully forested the Teply Brook small catchment (district Zdar nad Sazavou, the Czech Republic) for the dry seasons of 2003 to 2007 when the discharges were continuously recorded at the outlet. There are three interconnected soil water zones, represented by the corresponding subsurface storages in the model. Actual evapotranspiration from the riparian part of the catchment is approximated by a special form of the Fourier series. The model simulates a runoff process using seven independent parameters, evapotranspiration is simulated through another four parameters. The paper points out how the model can be successfully implemented in the simulation of diurnal discharge fluctuation on the small forested experimental catchment in dry periods.

Implementation of conceptual linear storage model of runoff with diurnal fluctuation in rainless periods / Aplikace konceptuálního lineárního modelu základního odtoku s denní variabilitou v bezesrážkovém období, Česká republika. J. Hydrol. Hydromech., 60, 2012, 4; 27 lit., 8 obr., 3 tab.

Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mathematics, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Czech University of Life Sciences, Fakulty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Land Use and Improvement, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Physics, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

The aim of this paper is to set up the model describing the depletion runoff process when a catchment is supplied only from subsurface water sources and also...

Pubblicato online: 14 dic 2012

Pagine: 217 - 226

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10098-012-0019-y

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