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The IAHS Benchmark Papers in Hydrology Series collects together, by theme, the scientific papers that provided the foundations for hydrology in the 20th century. Published across a wide spectrum of disciplines, these papers define the field and provide an overview of the development of ideas that led to our current concepts and understanding in hydrology. Keith Loague charts the development of rainfallrunoff modelling up to 1989 with 30 benchmark papers. He begins with Mulvany's (1851) presentation of the rational method for estimating peak flow, regarded by many as the first rainfallrunoff model. The original papers on other empirical approaches, such as Sherman (1932) introducing the unit-hydrograph method, and Mockus (1949) which provided the basis for the SCS curve number approach, are included. So too are Richards (1931) and Smith & Parlange (1978), soil physics papers presenting equations central to physically-based rainfallrunoff modelling. The innovative contributions of Alan Freeze, and later Keith Beven, to physically-based modelling are represented by several of their respective papers. The seminal papers of Moore & Clarke (1981), a statistical distribution approach to rainfallrunoff modelling, and Abbott et al. (1986), the well known process-based SHE model, are also included. Loague notes that hundreds, if not thousands, of hydrologic-response models have been developed over the years, but that not all were created equal. This volume presents papers that exemplify the best in rainfallrunoff modelling. It forms a natural companion to the first Benchmark Papers in Hydrology volume, Streamflow Generation Processes by Keith Beven.
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