53:078 Principles of Hydrology (Spring 2004)
Problem #7
Areal-Average Precipitation for Ralston Creek (June 1972 storm)
Hourly rainfall data for five
stations in the North Branch of Ralston Creek
are provided for the flood that occurred on
17-18 July 1972.
The areas associated with the five Thiessen polygons are (i.e., which you
created in class) given below. Use this information to complete are storm
analysis for this event.
| Number | Station | Area (sq mi) |
|
1
| Ruppert | 0.641 |
|
2
| Donovan | 0.482 |
|
3
| Hunter | 0.819 |
|
4
| Larsen | 0.638 |
|
5
| Kessler | 0.430 |
- Compute the storm total rainfall (in inches) for each of the five stations.
- Plot the storm totals (in inches) on the map
of the North Branch of Ralston Creek.
- Sketch isohyets (lines of equal rainfall depth) for at contour interval of
0.1 inches.
- Estimate the areal average rainfall (in inches) for each hour using
the arithmetic average method.
- Compute the Thiessen Polygon weights (wi).
- Compute the areal average rainfall (in inches) for each hour using the
Thiessen polygon method.
- Plot the the areal average rainfall computed using the arithmetic average
method (part d) versus time (Note that this is commonly referred to as the
incremental rainfall hyetograph).
- Compute the cumulative rainfall (in inches) for each hour for the areal
average rainfall computed using the arithmetic average method (part d).
- Plot the cumulative rainfall versus time (Note that this is commonly
referred to as the cumulative rainfall hyetograph, or rainfall mass curve).
- Compute the maximum rainfall intensity (in inches/hr) for durations of 1, 3,
and 6 hours, for the areal average rainfall computed using the arithmetic
average method (part d).
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