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Assessment of surface runoff depth changes in Sǎrǎţel River basin, Romania using GIS techniques

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Central European Journal of Geosciences

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Sǎrǎţel River basin, which is located in Curvature Subcarpahian area, has been facing an obvious increase in frequency of hydrological risk phenomena, associated with torrential events, during the last years. This trend is highly related to the increase in frequency of the extreme climatic phenomena and to the land use changes. The present study is aimed to highlight the spatial and quantitative changes occurred in surface runoff depth in Sǎrǎţel catchment, between 1990–2006. This purpose was reached by estimating the surface runoff depth assignable to the average annual rainfall, by means of SCS-CN method, which was integrated into the GIS environment through the ArcCN-Runoff extension, for ArcGIS 10.1. In order to compute the surface runoff depth, by CN method, the land cover and the hydrological soil classes were introduced as vector (polygon data), while the curve number and the average annual rainfall were introduced as tables. After spatially modeling the surface runoff depth for the two years, the 1990 raster dataset was subtracted from the 2006 raster dataset, in order to highlight the changes in surface runoff depth.

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  1. Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, 1, Nicolae Bǎlcescu Boulevard, 050107, Bucharest, Romania

    Costache Romulus & Fontanine Iulia

  2. Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, 20 A, Carol I Boulevard, 700505, Iaşi, Romania

    Corodescu Ema

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Romulus, C., Iulia, F. & Ema, C. Assessment of surface runoff depth changes in Sǎrǎţel River basin, Romania using GIS techniques. cent.eur.j.geo. 6, 363–372 (2014). https://doi.org/10.2478/s13533-012-0181-0

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