EFFECTIVE RAINFALL HYETOGRAPH

• For purposes of correlating DRH with the rainfall which

produced the flow, the hydrograph of the rainfall is also pruned
by deducting the losses.
• The initial loss and infiltration losses are subtracted from it.
• The resulting hyetograph is known as effective rainfall
hyetograph (ERH).
• It is also known as hyetograph of rainfall excess or supra rainfall.
• Both DRH and ERH represent the same total quantity but in
different units.
• Since ERH is usually in cm/hr plotted against time, the area of
ERH multiplied by the catchment area gives the total volume of
direct runoff, which is the same as the area of DRH.
• The initial loss and infiltration losses are estimated based on the
available data of the catchment.