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Discharge Measurement Problems for Field-Size Agricultural Catchments

Author(s): A. T. Hjelmfelt; R. G. Spomer; L. A. Kramer

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Abstract: Data collected during a seventeen-year effort to field calibrate a broad-crested, V-notch or triangular weir were analyzed to determine characteristics of the measurement error. The runoff from a 33.6 ha cornfield, located in southwestern Iowa, U. s. A., near Council Bluffs, was gaged using a broad-crested, 2:1, . triangular weir. Laboratory calibration was availabie, but the validity of the laboratory calibration for this field situation was not known. A study was established to field calibrate theweir. A statistical analysis of the data provided some indication of the measurement error associated with the published runoff records. Sources of this variability are discussed.

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Year: 1985

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