Characterisation of the HEC-HMS model to the river Arga's watershed in Pamplona and its application to five significant floods
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HEC-HMS, flood simulation, rainfall-runoff modelsAbstract
Pamplona is a citty that is crossed by the river Arga along a floodplain, which is susceptible to flooding when there are floods of certain magnitude. In this situation it is important to have a hydrological model able to simulate the flows that runs through the city centre, from the data of different gauges in the watershed, which serve to feed hydraulic models that permits to define the flooding susceptible areas associated to different levels of probability. With this end, the HEC-HMS model of river Arga 's watershed in Pamplona, has been assembled and characterised, and subsequently applied to the five most significant floods in recentyears,from which the minimum required data offlow andprecipitation is available. HEC-HMS is a rainfallrunoff model that consists of structuring the source watershed into sub-watersheds associated to the river network. The base flow in the observed hydrographs was estimated by the Eckhardt filter. After performing a sensitivity analysis of uncertain parameters of the model (in which it has been observed that CN is the most sensitive) the model has been applied with data from the precipitation series of the automatic stations and data from automatic plus manual stations; in the latter case the results have improved significantly, obtaining satisfactory results.
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