WATERSHED MODELING USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Artificial Neural Networks analysis was used for modeling rainfall-runoff relationship. A new Instantaneous ANN watershed model was built and tried herein using Walnut Gulch watershed (catchment) area. For modeling the instantaneous response of a catchment to a rainfall event an ANN model was built shown herein. The built model can represent the actual response using descritized rainfall-runoff values, over a selected time interval ( ? t). As this time interval decreases the actual response is more accurately modeled. This model was applied to one of the sub-catchment of Walnut Gulch watershed (sub-catchment No.9 (flume 11)). Th e model was found successful to represent the lag-time and time of runoff related to the hyetograph properties.