2006 Volume 50 Pages 109-114
It is found that basin hydrological response and model effective parameter identification in relations with the drainage basin dominating geomorphological parameters is directly influenced by the scale of DEM resolution. Thus a scale independent relationship in flood routing models is necessary for consistency in rainfall runoff translation at a scale of interest. To overcome this problem downscaling methods of dominating geomorphometric parameters are used to obtain the scale invariant distribution function of cross-section, depth, discharge and wave celerity from different DEM resolutions. The downscaling methods of the flow variables is then coupled with the Muskingum-Cunge routing method to develop a scale invariant routing model.