Rainfall- runoff characteristics for a mountainous watershed in the northeast United States.

Abstract

A 112km2 research watershed was instrumented to study basic hydrologic processes in the mountainous areas of the NE US. Within this area the rainfall-runoff relationships are characterized by fast response but relatively low volumes of runoff. There is very little evidence of surface runoff and the partial-area hydrology concept appears to describe the runoff process. A partial area storm runoff process has been described and experimentally verified for an extremely small area in this watershed.-from Author