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What affects the shape of a storm hydrograph?
amount of precipitation
On a hydrograph what does the area under the curve equal?
Total Volume of rainfall for that storm event
The unit of hydrograph for an infinitesimally small during of effective rainfall is called?
Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph
What is the difference between hydrograph and hyetograph?
hyetograph is the graph between intensity of rainfall and time whereas hydrograph is the graph between discharge and time.
What is an attenuated peak in a storm hydrograph?
Firstly an attenuation is the reduction in the peak of a hydro-graph as it movesdownstream, resulting in a more broad, flat hydro-graph.Therefore the attenuated peak is the highest point before it attenuates.
What is a flood hydrograph?
A hydrograph is showing the discharge (rate of flow) versus the time past in a specific river point. One of the types of hydrography is called a flood hydrograph, it is used to measure the river's characteristic basically a dual plot of discharge and rainfalls.
What is does a hydrograph show?
the amount of discharge in a river over a period of time
Why is there a lag time between the peak rainfall and peak discharge on a hydrograph?
because there is
What is Rainfall Peak?
The peak rainfall is the highest amount of rain in a place on a hydrograph.
What is the flood routing types?
IS the technique of determining flood hydrograph at a section of river
How would the hydrograph of a large rainstorm change after urbanization of an area?
After urbanization of an area, the peak of a hydrograph of a large rainstorm would become higher and narrower. Urbanization is defined simply as more and more people living in urban areas.
What is peak rainfall mean?
The peak rainfall is the highest amount of rain in a place on a hydrograph.
