Hydro - A basic program and user's guide to model a recorded hydrograph of a debris flow using two different solutions for kinematic wave theory

We present a BASIC program that computes the parameters of a kinematic wave model for debris-flow motion (Arattano and Savage, 1992) using a recorded hydrograph of a debris flow and the channel cross section measured at the location of the gaging station. The program generates theoretical hydrographs based on two different solutions for kinematic wave theory at the location of the station. These theoretical solutions can then be compared with the recorded hydrograph.