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Research article
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23 Apr 2020
Research article |
| 23 Apr 2020
| 23 Apr 2020
A methodology to estimate flow duration curves at partially ungauged basins
Elena Ridolfi
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, CNDS, Uppsala, Sweden
Hemendra Kumar
Department of Biosystems Engineering Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
András Bárdossy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, University of Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany
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Short summary
The paper presents a new, simple and model-free methodology to estimate the streamflow at partially gauged basins, given the precipitation gauged at another basin. We show that the FDC is not a characteristic of the basin only, but of both the basin and the weather. Because of the dependence on the climate, discharge data at the target site are here retrieved using the Antecedent Precipitation Index (API) of the donor site as it represents in a streamflow-like way the precipitation of the basin.
The paper presents a new, simple and model-free methodology to estimate the streamflow at...
