Recent contributions have significantly enhanced the understanding
of the SCS-CN method and consequently its application potential. In
the simplest form, the fundamental proportionality concept of the
method relates the two orthogonal hydrological processes of surface
water and ground water and the other hypothesis relates to the
atmospheric process. Qualitatively, the method broadly integrates
all the three major processes of the hydrologic cycle; and
therefore it can form one of the fundamental concepts of hydrology.
This textbook is aimed at presenting an up-to-date account of the
SCS-CN method and clarify its potential for practical applications,
and especially those other than originally intended.
The subject matter of the book is divided into nine chapters,
treating the following topics: a brief introduction of
rainfall-runoff modeling and elements of catchment, precipitation,
interception, surface detention and depression storage,
evaporation, infiltration, runoff, and the runoff hydrograph; the
factors affecting the curve number (CN), the determination of CN,
the use of NEH-4 tables, sensitivity analysis, advantages and
limitations of the SCS-CN method, and application to distributed
watershed modeling; an analytical derivation of the SCS-CN method
focusing on the Mockus and other methods; a determination of S'
using the volumetric concept encompassing an analytical derivation,
verification of the existing AMC criteria, determination of S, use
of NEH-4 tables and advantages and limitations of the modified
model; the determination of S' using physical principles, involving
Fokker-Planck equation of infiltration, description of S, S/P
relations for the modified model anddetermination of Ds from
universal soil loss equation; simulation of infiltration and runoff
hydrographs, with particular emphasis on SCS-CN-based infiltration
and runoff models and application of infiltration and runoff
models; long-term hydrologic simulation and hydrologic models of
Williams and LaSeur, Hawkins, Pandit and Gopalkrishnan, and Mishra
and others; rainfall-excess computation, soil moisture budgeting,
catchment routing, and baseflow computation; transport of
pollutants in urban watersheds; and sediment yield.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to agricultural
scientists, agricultural and civil engineers, environmental
engineers, forest and range scientists, as well as watershed
managers. It will also be useful to college students and faculty
members engaged in environment and water related studies.
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