USGS

Storage Analyses for Water Supply

U.S. Geological Survey, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, Book 4, Chapter B2

By H.C. Riggs and Clayton H. Hardison


Table of Contents

Preface

Abstract

Introduction

Methods available

Mass curve for period of record

Use of synthetic streamflows

Frequency-mass-curve method

Mass curve analysis of flows for each year

Probability routing

Selecting the inflow distribution

Defining the draft-storage-probability relation

The recommended method at gaging stations

Application to Red River near Adams, Tenn

Defining draft-storage relations at ungaged sites

Modifications to draft-storage relations

Evaporation losses

Effect of serial correlation

Other factors

References

 


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