Calibration of a streamflow-routing Model for the Delaware River and its Principal Tributaries in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Flippo HN and Madden TM. 1994. Calibration of a streamflow-routing Model for the Delaware River and its Principal Tributaries in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.. Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4160. United States Geological Survey. Lemoyne, Pennsylvania
The flow-routing module of the Hydrologic Simulation Program-Fortran watershed model was calibrated for 31 reaches on the Delaware River and 5 of its principal tributaries. These calibrations primarily involved the development of discharge-storage volume relations for the defined reaches. Daily discharge records for stream-gaging stations located at the upstream ends of the study reaches on the respective streams provided the primary hydrographic inputs for the routing models. Streamflow records for gaging stations at upstream locations and on other tributaries were used to estimate all other inflows for the 5-year calibration period, 1979-83. Root mean squm errors of streamflows that were simulated for the downstream ends of gaged reaches ranged from 0.4 to 9.4 percent for the Delaware River, Lehigh River, Schuylkill River, and Brandywine Creek.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Flippo, Herbert; Madden, Thomas
- Date of Issue
- 1994
- Publisher
- United States Geological Survey
- Units
- DEWA
- Keywords
- flow-routing, Gaging Station, Streamflow, Water