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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1171-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-1171-2020
Research article
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11 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 11 Mar 2020

Hydrograph separation: an impartial parametrisation for an imperfect method

Antoine Pelletier and Vazken Andréassian

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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.
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