Soil & Water Res., 2009, 4(1):1-9 | DOI: 10.17221/22/2008-SWR

Use of the KINFIL rainfall-runoff model on the Hukava catchmentOriginal Paper

Pavel Kováø1, Václav Kadlec2
1 Department of Land Use and Improvement, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2 Division of Soil Conservation and Reclamation, Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Prague, Czech Republic

The paper reports on the flood events on the forested Hukava catchment. It describes practical implementation of the KINFIL rainfall-runoff model. This model has been used for the reconstruction of the rainfall-runoff events and thus for the calibration of its parameters. The model was subsequently used to simulate the design discharges with an event duration of td = 30, 60, and 300 min in the period of recurrence of 100 years, and during the scenario simulations of the land use change when 40% and 80% of the forest in the catchment had been cleared out and then replaced by permanent grasslands. The implementation of the KINFIL model supported by GIS proved to be a proper method for the flood runoff assessment on small catchments, during which different scenarios of the land use changes were tested.

Keywords: rainfall-runoff model; GIS; design discharges; land use changes

Published: March 31, 2009  Show citation

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Kováø P, Kadlec V. Use of the KINFIL rainfall-runoff model on the Hukava catchment. Soil & Water Res. 2009;4(1):1-9. doi: 10.17221/22/2008-SWR.
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