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Research article
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11 Mar 2020
Research article |
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| 11 Mar 2020
Hydrograph separation: an impartial parametrisation for an imperfect method
Antoine Pelletier
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
École des Ponts ParisTech, Champs-sur-Marne, France
Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UR HYCAR, Antony, France
Vazken Andréassian
Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, UR HYCAR, Antony, France
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Short summary
There are many ways for water to join a river after a rainfall event, but they can be split into two categories: the quick ones that remain in the surface and the slow ones that use other trajectories. Thus, measured streamflow of a river can be split into two components: quickflow and baseflow. We present a new method to perform this separation, using only streamflow and rainfall data, which are generally broadly available. It is then used as an analysis tool of river dynamics over France.
There are many ways for water to join a river after a rainfall event, but they can be split into...
