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iia"i-"".t a lelevant t! thls exercis€' btrt becauEe the field data<br />
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(c), certain albltrarv. declslons haa<br />
;;;-;J; ii ut-..r'oi'.. of nhlch Eubrcdels to uae' A tlgotous<br />
;;;;t;i;t of all 1rcss1bte conblnatlone of loss atr'l surface rout:'ns<br />
ioaers wooLa be extret[ely tLBe-consutolng and not necessarlly productlve.<br />
;;;;;;";t io=s ooaers weie etudled ln corsbinatlon wlth albltralllv<br />
;;;;-;;t;... routl'ng Eodlels ' Folloulng ttris Phase of the \dork' a<br />
1""" rcalel eas selecte'l andl used fon the cdParlson of vart'oug<br />
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surface loutlng @ilels '<br />
Anotler key tlecisLon eas the cholce of optiloisation Dethod ' Optlr013ation<br />
ts tne plocess by $hlch "best" values of Dodel paraDelers are<br />
deterrtn€al acc.olill.ng to s@e criterion of how \te1t the rcdelled outPut<br />
..i.ft"" an" obsetved alata. Al-ternatlve oPtlnlsatlon strategles and<br />
objectlve frmctlong were exanlneal, as alescrlbed laler'<br />
Both the lnvestlgatlon of loss r0odlels an'l of oPtltdsatlon netltods<br />
.ng.q"a th" \tork;hop PaltlctlEnts for aPptoxlDately the f1!5t tltird of<br />
*r! i1ne avartalte. ttrese l o ltens are alealt !'ith in sectlons 3 and 4<br />
in thls leport. Ihe leoalning tlnre l,ae spent ln the coDlErison of a<br />
vallety oi sulface louting doalels using a co@on loss no'lel and a<br />
como'| optLmlsatLon netlodt tils t'tolk aPpears ln Sectlon 5'<br />
The flnal sectlon of the lePort !s a sumary of flndlngs and 'baws<br />
general concluslons flon t}re vtof,kshog.<br />
2. DATA<br />
Data fron subcatchDent erpelLDents 1n t-he Netletlands, s!'e'len and tie<br />
llK have been converteal to a coDnon fomat to glve a coDprehensive 'lata<br />
base of sotne 20 catct$enls, details of which are glven in Table I'<br />
Data f!d! the three aliffeleot soulceE have Duch ln co@on ' Firstly'<br />
the paltlcula! envLronoent of lndlvldual gurface rdater lnlets has<br />
nece;sltateal the developuent of custoio_bulMnstruhentatlon and<br />
rnonitorlng scheroes fo! lhe Deasuroncnt of runoff. seco[d1y, due to<br />
the srift response tsIne of the runoff, lelattvely flne teDPoral<br />
tliscrlDlnatlon 13 necessa4/i anat, thlrdly. followlng on fron this latter<br />
point, gooal ralnfall_runoff slmchlonisation 1E essentlal. Itrese three<br />
l)otttt" tt"'r" been considered sepalately bl' the trlee exPerloental<br />
p.ogra.oroes, and 6 blief descriptlon of the three progra@es deDonstrates<br />
hos lhe plobleDs i|ele solved in each case.