Geography A-Level
Flood hydrograph
What Flood hydrograph means in Geography A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Flood hydrograph
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A graph illustrating how a river's discharge, measured in m³ s⁻¹, responds to a specific rainfall event over time, plotting rainfall as a bar chart and discharge as a line graph.
Topics that use Flood hydrograph
- The water cycle (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Cryosphere
- cryospheric processes
- Flashy hydrograph
- Human intervention in natural systems
- Hydrosphere
- Lag time
- Lithosphere
- Subdued hydrograph
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