Regionalization of subsurface stormflow parameters of hydrologic models: Derivation from regional analysis of streamflow recession curves

JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

卷:519

Article

Ye, Sheng¹  Li, Hong-Yi²  Huang, Maoyi²  Alebachew, Melkamu Ali³  Leng, Guoyong²  Leung, L. Ruby²  Wang, Shao-wen¹  Sivapalan, Murugesu^1,4 

[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Geog & Geog Informat Sci, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

[2] Pacific NW Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA

[3] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Sci Ingn Civile, I-00146 Rome, Italy

[4] Univ Illinois, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Urbana, IL USA

关键词: Subsurface flow;    Closure relations;    Storage-discharge relationship;    Recession-slope curve;    Statistical methods;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.07.017

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Subsurface stormflow is an important component of the rainfall-runoff response, especially in steep terrain. Its contribution to total runoff is, however, poorly represented in the current generation of land surface models. The lack of physical basis of these common parameterizations precludes a priori estimation of the stormflow (i.e. without calibration), which is a major drawback for prediction in ungauged basins, or for use in global land surface models. This paper is aimed at deriving regionalized parameterizations of the storage-discharge relationship relating to subsurface stormflow from a top-down empirical data analysis of streamflow recession curves extracted from 50 eastern United States catchments. Detailed regression analyses were performed between parameters of the empirical storage-discharge relationships and the controlling climate, soil and topographic characteristics. The regression analyses performed on empirical recession curves at catchment scale indicated that the coefficient of the power-law form storage-discharge relationship is closely related to the catchment hydrologic characteristics, which is consistent with the hydraulic theory derived mainly at the hillslope scale. As for the exponent, besides the role of field scale soil hydraulic properties as suggested by hydraulic theory, it is found to be more strongly affected by climate (aridity) at the catchment scale. At a fundamental level these results point to the need for more detailed exploration of the co-dependence of soil, vegetation and topography with climate. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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