Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-737-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-737-2019
Research article
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22 Aug 2019
Research article |  | 22 Aug 2019

Computing water flow through complex landscapes – Part 1: Incorporating depressions in flow routing using FlowFill

Kerry L. Callaghan and Andrew D. Wickert

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Lakes and swales are real landscape features but are generally treated as data errors when calculating water flow across a surface. This is a problem because depressions can store water and fragment drainage networks. Until now, there has been no good generalized approach to calculate which depressions fill and overflow and which do not. We addressed this problem by simulating runoff flow across a landscape, selectively flooding depressions and more realistically connecting lakes and rivers.