This thesis deals with a process-based simulation of distributed flood control measures like land use changes or differing soil tillage practices, small retention ponds and restoration of rivers to quantify their flood reducing effects. In this context various challenges have to be met because these measures have different impacts on the total rainfall runoff process including runoff generation, runoff concentration and flood routing. For this a combined modeling approach is chosen, containing the physically based rainfall runoff model WaSiM-ETH (Version 8.4.2, SCHULLA 1997) and the 2D hydrodynamic numerical model HYDRO_AS-2D (NUJIC 1998). Inter alia the models are parameterized by the results of field studies. These measurements are used to prove the influence of the different types of land use (grassland, forest, arable land) on soil hydraulic properties. Therefore they are necessary to get a land use depending parameterization of the soil model in WaSiM-ETH. The measurement results show that grassland soils have the best infiltration and water storage properties compared to the other types of land use. Furthermore, the collected data contribute to identify the best fitting pedotransfer function for the study area, which is important to minimize uncertainties regarding the use of different types of pedotransfer functions in a physically based rainfall runoff model. After constructing, parameterizing and calibrating the models, they are coupled with an offline-connection by adding the runoff of each sub basin in WaSiM-ETH to HYDRO_AS-2D as boundary conditions. The calibration results with a high fitting quality demonstrate that the chosen coupled modeling approach can be applied for further research. The distributed flood control measures are parameterized by the use of field and laboratory data, different literature sources and historical marshland and drainage maps. Subsequently their flood reducing effectiveness is quantified for different flood events and the rurally characterized mesoscaled study area of the Windach catchment (AEZG = 65 km²). The simulation results show that this effectiveness is influenced by different parameters, e.g. the course of the hydrograph, the peak flow or the runoff volume, depending on the respective measure. The measures show the highest potential when realized in the form of an integrated concept including retention ponds, restoration of rivers and marshlands as well as afforestation. In this case the peak flow can be reduced by 11 % (HQ100 advective event) to 26 % (HQ60 convective event). The small retention ponds (max. 50000 m³) have turned out to be the most effective individual distributed flood control measure, which all principally have the highest potential in the case of a convective event.
«This thesis deals with a process-based simulation of distributed flood control measures like land use changes or differing soil tillage practices, small retention ponds and restoration of rivers to quantify their flood reducing effects. In this context various challenges have to be met because these measures have different impacts on the total rainfall runoff process including runoff generation, runoff concentration and flood routing. For this a combined modeling approach is chosen, containing t...
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