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Hydrologic Engineering Center
Modified-Puls Routing in
Chuquatonchee Creek
September 1980
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September 1980 Research Document
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Modified-Puls Routing in Chuquantonchee Creek
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Theodor Strelkoff, Hydraulic Engineer
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43 Liberty Street
San Francisco, CA 94110 5F. WORK UNIT NUMBER
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Institute for Water Resources
Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC)
609 Second Street
Davis, CA 95616-4687
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This work was performed under contract (DACW05-80-P-0324) to the Hydrologic Engineering Center
14. ABSTRACT
This report describes the application of modified-puls for evaluating the relative accuracy of flood routing methods to a
natural river. The modified-puls method has at its core the postulate that storage depends only on outflow rate. The
relationship S(0) is presumed known for the reach of interest and for the range of outflow to be encountered. The hope that
the method will yield at least approximately correct outflow hydrographs rests on the assumption that the storage depends
primarily, if not only, on outflow rate. If only certain features of the outflow hydrograph, such as peak and time of peak, are
desired with reasonable precision, then the dependence of S on 0 perhaps could be relaxed further, with dependence existing
only for some particularly important range of 0.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
flood routing, modified-puls, storage routing, hydrologic routing, river channels, outflow
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Modified-Puls Routing in
Chuquatonchee Creek
September 1980
Prepared by:
Theodor Strelkoff, Hydraulic Engineer
43 Liberty Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Prepared for:
US Army Corps of Engineers
Institute for Water Resources
Hydrologic Engineering Center
609 Second Street
Davis, CA 95616
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