Hydrology Terminology

Watershed

Streamflow

Routing

Reservoirs

-Storage

-routing

Channel

Precipitation

Snow

Runoff

Infiltration

Unit hydrograph

Timing

Flooding

Flow

Grade lines

Land Use

Frequency

• Reservoir routing is generally easier to perform than river routing because storage-discharge relations for pipes, weirs, and spillways are single-valued functions independent of flow.

• Storage indication method or Puls Method

• Other Methods: Runge-Kutta Method

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