Development of a Coastal Low-Gradient Experimental Watershed in Support of the US Army Surface Water Modeling Research
Abstract
This poster reports on establishing a new experimental coastal low-gradient watershed. The Isaac-Verot watershed is located in south central Louisiana and is part of the Vermilion River basin that connects to the Vermilion Bay of the Gulf of Mexico. Isaac-Verot is a combined rural-urban watershed and has an area of approximately 28 km2 with extremely flat overland slope. The experimental watershed is densely populated with various hydrologic and meteorological stations that provide a real-time continuous stream of high-resolution, high quality observations. The main focus of data collection in the new watershed is to support research efforts in the field of watershed hydrology. The collected data will facilitate and serve many specialized research studies that aim to understand and model the complex physical processes that control the hydraulic and hydrologic systems in coastal, low gradient watersheds. The data have potential benefits for development, testing, and improvement of the US Army Corps of Engineers numerical surface water hydrologic models.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA433668
Entities
People
- Ehab Meselhe
- Emad H. Habib
- Tzvetlena Peeva
Organizations
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette