Automatic Flood Prediction Using Rainfall Runoff Model in Moravian-Silesian Region

Rainfall runoff models play important role in hydrological predictions. However, the model is only one part of the process for creation of flood prediction. The aim of this paper is to show the process of successful prediction for flood event (May 15 – May 18 2014). Prediction was performed by rainfall runoff model HEC–HMS, one of the models computed within Floreon+ system. The paper briefly evaluates the results of automatic hydrologic prediction on the river Olše catchment and its gages Český Těšín and Věřňovice.

Authors:

• B. Sir
• M. Podhoranyi
• S. Kuchar
• T. Kocyan

Keywords:

• Flood
• HEC-HMS
• Prediction
• Rainfall – Runoff.

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