Modelling suspended sediment flow in arid upland basins |
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Authors: | K. D. SHARMA R. P. DHIR J. S. R. MURTHY |
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Affiliation: | 1. Central Arid Zone Research Institute , Jodhpur, 342 003, India;2. Department of Civil Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology , Bombay, 400 076, India |
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Abstract: | Abstract A conceptual basin model of the instantaneous unit sediment graph was developed for sediment graph prediction from arid upland basins by routing mobilized sediments through a series of linear reservoirs. The sediment graphs generated by convolution of the instantaneous unit sediment graph compared reasonably well with the observed ones for four representative arid upland sub-basins in the Luni basin, India. The mobilized sediment during a storm was related to effective precipitation and the parameters of the model were estimated from observed events. The model can be applied to ungauged flow events through parameterization. |
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