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Techniques for Estimation of Storm-Runoff Loads, Volumes, and Selected Constituent Concentrations in Urban Watersheds in the United States

U.S. Geological Survey, Water Supply Paper 2363

by Nancy E. Driver and Gary D. Tasker


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Acknowledgments

Data base

Estimating procedures for storm-runoff loads and storm-runoff volumes

Methods

Selection of response and explanatory variables

Definition of homogeneous regions

Selection of model form

Models

Three-variable models

Comparisons of all storm-runoff-load and storm-runoff-volume models

Storm-runoff-load models for region I

Storm-runoff-load models for region II

Storm-runoff-load models for region III

Storm-runoff-volume models

Three-variable models for storm-runoff loads

Limitations of significant explanatory variables

Other potentially useful explanatory variables

Validation, testing, and application of regression models

Split-sample analysis

Standardized beta coefficients

Application of regression models

Estimating procedures for storm-runoff mean concentrations

Methods

Models

Estimating procedures for mean seasonal or annual loads

Response variable-mean load for a storm

Explanatory variables

Methods

Models

Example

Summary

References cited

 


 

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