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An Event-Based Sediment Yield and Runoff Modeling Using Soil Moisture Balance/Budgeting (SMB) Method

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The Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) method is frequently used for the estimation of direct surface runoff depth from the small watersheds. Coupling the SCS-CN method with the Soil Moisture Balance (SMB) method, new simple 2-parameters rainfall-runoff model and 3-parametrs rainfall-sediment yield models are derived for computation of runoff and sediment yield respectively. The proposed runoff (R2) and sediment yield (S2) models have been tested on a large set of rainfall-runoff and sediment yield data (98 storm events) obtained from twelve watersheds from different land use/land cover, soil and climatic conditions. The improved runoff (R2) and sediment yield (S2) models show superior results as compared to the existing Mishra et al. (S1) and original SCS-CN (R1) models. The results and analysis justify the use of the proposed models for field applications.

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Authors gratefully acknowledge the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee for providing the essential data for the study. The first author acknowledge the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India for providing research assistantship for carrying out his Ph.D. Research work.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302017, India

    Sushindra Kumar Gupta, Gunwant Sharma & A. S. Jethoo

  2. Surface Water Hydrology Division, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India

    Jaivir Tyagi

  3. Water Resources System Division, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247667, India

    P. K. Singh

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Gupta, S.K., Tyagi, J., Sharma, G. et al. An Event-Based Sediment Yield and Runoff Modeling Using Soil Moisture Balance/Budgeting (SMB) Method. Water Resour Manage 33, 3721–3741 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-019-02329-1

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