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http://dx.doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2022.55.10.737

Estimating design floods based on bivariate rainfall frequency analysis and rainfall-runoff model  

Kim, Min Ji (Department of Smart City Engineering, Hanyang University)
Park, Kyung Woon (Department of Civil and Environmental System Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim, Seok-Woo (Department of Civil and Environmental System Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim, Tae-Woong (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University)
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Journal of Korea Water Resources Association / v.55, no.10, 2022 , pp. 737-748 More about this Journal
Abstract
Due to the lack of flood data, the water engineering practice calculates the design flood using rainfall frequency analysis and rainfall-runoff model. However, the rainfall frequency analysis for arbitrary duration does not reflect the regional characteristics of the duration and amount of storm event. This study proposed a practical method to calculate the design flood in a watershed considering the characteristics of storm event, based on the bivariate rainfall frequency analysis. After extracting independent storm events for the Pyeongchang River basin and the upper Namhangang River basin, we performed the bivariate rainfall frequency analysis to determine the design storm events of various return periods, and calculated the design floods using the HEC-1 model. We compared the design floods based on the bivariate rainfall frequency analysis (DF_BRFA) with those estimated by the flood frequency analysis (DF_FFA), and those estimated by the HEC-1 with the univariate rainfall frequency analysis (DF_URFA). In the case of the Pyeongchang River basin, except for the 100-year flood, the average error of the DF_BRFA was 11.6%, which was the closest to the DF_FFA. In the case of the Namhangang River basin, the average error of the DF_BRFA was about 10%, which was the most similar to the DF_FFA. As the return period increased, the DF_URFA was calculated to be much larger than the DF_FFA, whereas the BRFA produced smaller average error in the design flood than the URFA. When the proposed method is used to calculate design flood in an ungauged watershed, it is expected that the estimated design flood might be close to the actual DF_FFA. Thus, the design of the hydrological structures and water resource plans can be carried out economically and reasonably.
Keywords
Bivariate analysis; Independent storm event; Design storm event; Design floods;
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