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APPENDIX C : ORBAN RAINTAIL RUNoFT MODELS<br />

INIRODUCTI ON<br />

The transfornatlon of rainfall (lnput) to rurpff (output) is<br />

acconplished by th€ appltcation in serl€s of two sub{ode16i the LOSS<br />

sub-nodel and the SiJRFACE ROUTING sub-model.<br />

within the coropute! package there exj.st a nusber of these sub'nodels,<br />

each one associated with a particular option nrmbe!. Eot any run.<br />

tbe values assigneal to these optlon nurDbers speclfy which I,oSS sub-toodel<br />

and lrhich SiiJRFAcE RoiJTING sub-model are to be used for fhe rai.nfall/<br />

runoff transfotnRtion.<br />

LOSS S'(TB -MODELS<br />

The loss sub-$odel deflnes (a) net rainfall 1n nny'hr and {b) contrlbuting<br />

area in m2.<br />

Some sub-nodels are subdlvided according to the definltion of contributing<br />

ar:ea, the roethods f,or calculating the net ialnfall belng identlcal.<br />

Thls diviston relates to vhetner the contributing alea is equal to lhe<br />

paved area or the total area of the subcatchnent. The sub-division is<br />

only retevant to the Blitish data, slnce paved and Cotal area ale the<br />

sMe for the Dutch and s\,,edlsh data.<br />

The analysis is furth€r divided accolding to whether or not volum€s ale<br />

to be forced. Eor any storm event, lainfafl and runoff are observed anal.<br />

hence, total rainfall anal totaf runoff are both known. This kno{Iedge<br />

will pe'lllt one of the parametets of the loss sub-model to be deEernined<br />

rather i:han simply asslgninq a predlctEd vatue to lt. within each submodel<br />

there exists a rswitch' optlon which controls whether volumeg are<br />

to be forced or lrhether paraneter values are to be asslgned.<br />

BeLow is a short descrj.ption of each sub-node1. The sub-nodels ale<br />

nuebered accoraiing to thetr option nrDbers. thele foflows a table which<br />

srinmalises the model,s and the paranetels lequired for each.<br />

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