Resource

National Engineering Handbook : Section 4 - Hydrology

Resource Type
Guidelines, Technical Manuals, Reference Books
Reference Title
National Engineering Handbook : Section 4 - Hydrology
Author/Presenter
Rallison, Robert E.
Organization/Agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Year
1995
Abstract/Additional Information

Contents: introduction, procedures, preliminary investigations, storm rainfall data, streamflow data, stream reaches and hydrologic units, hydrologic soil groups, land use and treatment classes, hydrologic soil-cover complexes, estimation of direct runoff from storm rainfall & snowmelt, hydrologic effects of land use and treatment, state-inundation relationships, state-discharge relationships, travel time/time of concentration/lag, hydrographs, flood routing, selected statistical methods, transmission losses, watershed yield, design hydrographs, glossary, conversion factors.

Versions in 1969, 1972, 1985