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Estimation of time of concentration faces a great extent of uncertainties in hydrological
design provision and introduction of water resource management policies. Researches has
shown that the estimation of time of concentration falls under the influence dissimilarity
of watershed characteristics and climatic conditions in the utilization of empirical models
over different watershed area. This study aims to determine which type of Empirical model
subsequent data such asrainfall, streamflow, watershed characteristics data were collected
through recording devices and GIS analysis. After data processing, rank-based selection
method was conducted to identify the best performing empirical model.
Analysis on the collected data demonstrated that watershed area, flow channel length and
channel slope were strongly associated to estimating the time of concentration. The
analysisindicate that Bransby Williams resulted the least margin of error as compared with
the Observed values. On contrary McCuen model came out resulting underestimationwhile
overestimation of time of
concentration.
KEY WORDS: Time of Concentration; Watershed Characteristics;
underestimation/Overestimation; Bransby Williams. |
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