Flood Hydrology Manual : A water Resources Technical Publication
- First Edition
- Washington: United States Goverment Printing Office Denver, 1989
- 243,illust,24cm
Chapter 1. Background And historical Perspective 1.1Background 1.2Historical Procedure 1.3Hydrometeorologic Approach Chapter 2.Basic Hydrologic And Meteorologic Data 2.1General considerations 2.2Hydrologic data 2.3Meteorologic Data 2.4Field Reconnaissance of drainage basins for flood Hydrology studyies 2.5Examining Nearby Basins That Have Experienced Significant Recorded Floods Chapter 3.Hydrometeorology 3.1General Considerations And Background 3.2Atmospheric Processes 3.3Derivation Of PMS 3.4Distribution Of PMS Chapter 4.Flood Hydrograph Determinations 4.1Flood Runoof From Rainfall 4.2Probable Maximum Flood Hydrograph 4.3Western Mountain Snowmelt Equation 4.4Antecedent Floods 4.5 Foss Dam Example Chapter 5.Flood Rounting Through Reservoirs And River Channels 5.1General Considerations 5.2Reservior Flood Rountings 5.3Techniquesfor Routing Floods Through River Channels 5.4Successive Average Lag Method 5.5Modified Plus Method 5.6Modified Wilson Method 5.7Muskingum Ronting Method 5.8Foss Dam Example Chapter 6.Envelope Curves Of Recorded Flood Discharges 6.1General Considerations 6.2Sources of Data 6.3Procedure Chapter 7.Statistics And Probabilities 7.1Introduction 7.2Hydrologic data Sample 7.3Frequency Distributions 7.4Log-Pearson Type III Distribution 7.5Example Application using Bulletin 17B 7.6Limitations On Frequency curve extrapolation 7.7 Mixed populations 7.8Volume analysis 7.9Probability relationship for ungauged areas 7.10General Trends in Freuency relationship7.11Foss Dam Example 7.12Example on Mixed Population Analyses.Chapter 8Flood Study And Field Reconnaissance Reports 8.1General 8.2Specific Contents of a Flood Study report 8.3 Field reconnaissance report