Hydrology and Earth System Sciences www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net 1027-5606 1607-7938 13 1 2009 10.5194/hess-13-27-2009 http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/27/2009/ http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/27/2009/hess-13-27-2009.html http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/13/27/2009/hess-13-27-2009.pdf 27 40 2009-01-23 Simulating typhoon-induced storm hydrographs in subtropical mountainous watershed: an integrated 3-layer TOPMODEL J.-C. Huang T.-Y. Lee S.-J. Kao sjkao@gate.sinica.edu.tw Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China A three-layer TOPMODEL is constructed by integrating diffusion wave approach into surface flow, soil moisture deficit into inter flow and exponential recession curve function into base flow. 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