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Muskingum Routing
The Muskingum method is a hydrologic flood routing technique that predicts how a flood wave attenuates (reduces in peak) and spreads as it travels down a river reach. Developed by McCarthy in 1938 for the US Army Corps of Engineers, the method is simple enough for hand calculations while capturing the essential physics of flood propagation.
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Sources
- McCarthy, G. T. (1938). The Unit Hydrograph and Flood Routing. US Army Corps of Engineers Document 608. link ↗
- Cunge, J. A. (1969). On the subject of a flood propagation computation method (Muskingum method). Journal of Hydraulic Research, 7(2), 205-230. DOI: 10.1080/00221686909500264 ↗
- Chow, V. T., Maidment, D. R., & Mays, L. W. (1988). Applied Hydrology. McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 0-07-010810-2