Anker et al. (2025) Integrative Runoff Infiltration Modeling of Mountainous Urban Karstic Terrain

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Identification

• Journal: Hydrology
• Year: 2025
• Date: 2025-08-22
• Authors: Yaakov Anker, Nitzan Ne’eman, Alexander Gimburg, Itzhak Benenson
• DOI: 10.3390/hydrology12090222

Research Groups

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Short Summary

The study proposes a refined hydrological modeling procedure for urban karstic watersheds by integrating optimal DEM resolution and land use classification within a GIS-HEC-HMS framework to accurately predict runoff volume and discharge.

Objective

• To develop a precise urban runoff modeling procedure for complex mountainous karstic watersheds to support water-sensitive design and flood control.

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Urban mountainous karstic watersheds (sub-basin level).
• Temporal Scale: Not specified.

Methodology and Data

• Models used: ModClark Transform, SCS Curve Number, and HEC-HMS.
• Data sources: Digital Elevation Models (DEM), spectral and feature-based Land Use Classification (LUC), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Main Results

• Identified that optimal DEM resolution, combined with spectral and feature-based LUC, more accurately reflects significant tributaries compared to high-resolution DEMs, which may overestimate minor, redundant tributaries.
• The integration of ModClark Transform and SCS Curve Number methods via a GIS-HEC-HMS platform enables precise prediction of runoff volume and discharge in complex urban karstic terrains.

Contributions

• Provides a methodology to optimize DEM resolution in hydrological modeling to avoid "over-accuracy" redundancies.
• Offers a specialized modeling approach tailored to the specific complexities of urban karstic watersheds.

Funding

Not specified

Citation

@article{Anker2025Integrative,
  author = {Anker, Yaakov and Ne’eman, Nitzan and Gimburg, Alexander and Benenson, Itzhak},
  title = {Integrative Runoff Infiltration Modeling of Mountainous Urban Karstic Terrain},
  journal = {Hydrology},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.3390/hydrology12090222},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology12090222}
}