TY - BOOK ID - 6743187 TI - Soil conservation service curve number (SCS-CN) methodology AU - Mishra, Surendra Kumar AU - Singh, Vijay P. PY - 2003 VL - 42 SN - 1402011326 9048162254 9401701474 9781402011320 PB - Dordrecht Kluwer Academic DB - UniCat KW - Runoff KW - Rain and rainfall KW - Mathematical models. KW - Hydrogeology. KW - Agriculture. KW - Water pollution. KW - Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. KW - Aquatic pollution KW - Fresh water KW - Fresh water pollution KW - Freshwater pollution KW - Inland water pollution KW - Lake pollution KW - Lakes KW - Reservoirs KW - River pollution KW - Rivers KW - Stream pollution KW - Water contamination KW - Water pollutants KW - Water pollution KW - Pollution KW - Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Geohydrology KW - Geology KW - Hydrology KW - Groundwater KW - Runoff - Mathematical models. KW - Rain and rainfall - Mathematical models. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6743187 AB - The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) curve number (CN) method is one of the most popular methods for computing the runoff volume from a rainstorm. It is popular because it is simple, easy to understand and apply, and stable, and accounts for most of the runoff producing watershed characteristics, such as soil type, land use, hydrologic condition, and antecedent moisture condition. The SCS-CN method was originally developed for its use on small agricultural watersheds and has since been extended and applied to rural, forest and urban watersheds. Since the inception of the method, it has been applied to a wide range of environments. In recent years, the method has received much attention in the hydrologic literature. The SCS-CN method was first published in 1956 in Section-4 of the National Engineering Handbook of Soil Conservation Service (now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service), U. S. Department of Agriculture. The publication has since been revised several times. However, the contents of the methodology have been nonetheless more or less the same. Being an agency methodology, the method has not passed through the process of a peer review and is, in general, accepted in the form it exists. Despite several limitations of the method and even questionable credibility at times, it has been in continuous use for the simple reason that it works fairly well at the field level. ER -