Automated Tools for Spatially Distributed Rainfall/Runoff Modeling

by E. James Nelson,
Norman L. Jones,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: North American Water and Environment Congress & Destructive Water

Abstract:

A watershed modeling system (WMS) has been developed to address the needs of surface water rainfall/runoff computer simulations. WMS, developed at the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory (ECGL) at Brigham Young University, is part of a multi-year project funded in part through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station (WES). WMS can be used as a pre and post-processor for both traditional lumped parameter models such as HEC-1 and TR-20 as well as for spatially distributed finite element and fmite difference models. Both kinds of models are set up from a high-level conceptual model comprised of points, arcs (polylines) and polygons.

Subject Headings: Computer models | Spatial distribution | Finite element method | Watersheds | Simulation models | Rain water | Decision support systems

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