REGIONAL POLLUTION

MODEL
Geomorphologic Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph
(GIUH)
unit rainfall N independent raindrops

the probability for a raindrop adopting

a specified path
P w POAi Pxoi xi Pxi x j Px k x
P w POAi Pxoi xi Pxi x j Pxk x

total runoff travel time along the path

Tw Txoi Txi Tx j Tx
Q
watershed geomorphologic IUH
t x
xxo1o1 x11x
x2 2xx
3 3
(Rodriguez-Iturbe & Valdes, 1979)
xo1x1x3

w W

u t f xoi t f xi t f x j t f x t w
P w x
xxo2o2
xo3x3
x22x
x3 3

where f(t) is the runoff travel time distribution

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GIUH model considering subsurface flow
effective
rainfall

V-shaped model for

ith-order subwatershed

effective
rainfall

groundwater
table groundwater
table saturated zone
surface-flow surface-flow unsaturated
zone
(Lee and Chang, 2005) region
subsurface-flow region
subsurface-flow
region
surface flow
region
subsurface
flow

Rainfall infiltrates as subsurface flow on the upper portions of the

watershed.
Surface flow can only occur on the lower portions of the watershed
during storms. 3
GIUH model considering subsurface flow
Flow path probability
surface flow P ws RPCA POA Px x Px x L Px x i i oi i i j k 1
1

subsurface flow P wsub 1 RPCA POA Px x Px x Px x i i subi i k

1
i j 2
Runoff travel time 2
1

surface flow Tw Tx Tx Tx Tx s oi i j
3
1
2
subsurface flow Tw Tx Tx Tx Tx 1 1
sub subi i j

Surface & Subsurface IUH

surface-flow region

us t f
ws Ws
xoi (t ) * f xi (t ) * f x j (t ) * * f x (t ) w P ws s
surface flow paths
xo1 x1 x2 x3
subsurface flow paths
xsub1 x1 x2 x3

u sub t f
wsub Wubs
xsubi
(t ) * f xi (t ) * f x j (t ) * * f x (t ) w P wsub
sub
xo1 x1 x3
xo2 x2 x3
xsub1 x1 x3
xsub2 x2 x3
xo3 x3 xsub3 x3

u (t ) us (t ) usub (t )

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Runoff travel time estimations
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no L oi
m
Overland-flow travel time Txo
i S 1o 2 i m -1
(Henderson and Wooding, 1964) i e

Subsurface-flow travel time L subi

Txsub
(Henderson and Wooding, 1964) i
K 0 S subi

Channel-flow travel time

1/ m

Bi h m 2ie nc L subi Lci
Txi hco i
(Lee and Yen, 1997) 2ie L subi coi Bi S ci
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us t f
ws Ws
xoi
(t ) * f xi (t ) * f x j (t ) * * f x (t ) w P ws
s

u sub t f
wsub Wubs
xsubi
(t ) * f xi (t ) * f x j (t ) * * f x (t ) w P wsub
sub

u (t ) us (t ) usub (t ) Kinematic-wave-based geomorphologic IUH (KW-GIUH)

(Lee and Yen, 1997; Lee and Chang, 2005)
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