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HEC-HMS

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HEC-HMS allows users to schematically build the hydrologic network, including sub-basins and routing reaches.

Use HEC-HMS to perform calculations similar to those of HEC-1, covering a variety of precipitation and runoff processes.

Precipitation Modeling

  • Model hypothetical storm events based on frequency.
  • Use the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers standard project storm for hypothetical storms in the U.S. east of the Rocky Mountains.
  • Consider historical storm events through cell-based precipitation data.
  • Import precipitation data from other sources.
  • Specify gages and a method of weighting the gages, including user-defined and inverse distance-squared weighting.

Basin Modeling

  • Compute sub-basin runoff in either a lumped or linearly distributed fashion.
  • Determine losses based on several methods, including Green & Ampt, SCS Curve Number, gridded SCS Curve Number, and the Initial/Constant method.
  • Transform precipitation to runoff through either unit hydrograph methods (Clark, Snyder, or SCS) or Kinematic Wave methods.
  • Route hydrographs using Kinematic Wave, Modified Puls, Muskingum, or Muskingum-Cunge.
  • Divert flow, either losing the diverted hydrograph or adding it back in further downstream.

Additional Features:

  1. HEC-GIS (aka HEC-GeoRAS)
  2. Hydrologic Modeling with HEC-HMS
  3. River Analysis with HEC-RAS
  4. Flood Hydrology Calculations with Graphical HEC-1

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