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Technical Paper
Leo R. Beard
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Presented at the XIV General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Bern, Switzerland
14. ABSTRACT
The Hydrologic engineering Center of the Corps of Engineers has developed a mathematical model for simulating monthly
streamflow. This model has been tested extensively to assure that all characteristics of monthly average streamflow
pertinent to water resources development are adequately described in the model.
Model coefficients consist of frequency and correlation coefficients for each of the twelve calendar months and number
forty-eight for a single location. These are far more numerous where more than one location must be considered
simultaneously. For the purpose of deriving a monthly streamflow model for ungaged locations, these coefficients must be
combined into a small number of generalized coefficients, which can feasibly be related to drainage basin characteristics.
Generalized coefficients for simulating monthly streamflows have been developed with the requirement that important
characteristics of flows generated using the generalized coefficients compare reasonably with those characteristics of
recorded data at long-record stations through the United States.
Means of establishing generalized model coefficients and generating hypothetical streamflows ungaged locations are
described. Such streamflows would form the basis for water resources studies in regions of little or no streamflow data.
streamflow forecasting, synthesis, regression analysis, statistical methods, model studies, correlation analysis, statistical
models, routing ,flood routing, stream gages, stochastic processes
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