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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-III-2-109-2016</article-id>
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<article-title>A HIGH-PERFORMANCE METHOD FOR SIMULATING SURFACE  RAINFALL-RUNOFF DYNAMICS USING PARTICLE SYSTEM</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Fangli</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhou</surname>
<given-names>Qiming</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Qingquan</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wu</surname>
<given-names>Guofeng</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Liu</surname>
<given-names>Jun</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Coastal Zone of the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and GeoInformation &amp; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial-temporal Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>02</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>III-2</volume>
<fpage>109</fpage>
<lpage>112</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2016 Fangli Zhang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>The simulation of rainfall-runoff process is essential for disaster emergency and sustainable development. One common disadvantage of
the existing conceptual hydrological models is that they are highly dependent upon specific spatial-temporal contexts. Meanwhile, due
to the inter-dependence of adjacent flow paths, it is still difficult for the RS or GIS supported distributed hydrological models to achieve
high-performance application in real world applications. As an attempt to improve the performance efficiencies of those models, this
study presents a high-performance rainfall-runoff simulating framework based on the flow path network and a separate particle system.
The vector-based flow path lines are topologically linked to constrain the movements of independent rain drop particles. A separate
particle system, representing surface runoff, is involved to model the precipitation process and simulate surface flow dynamics. The
trajectory of each particle is constrained by the flow path network and can be tracked by concurrent processors in a parallel cluster
system. The result of speedup experiment shows that the proposed framework can significantly improve the simulating performance
just by adding independent processors. By separating the catchment elements and the accumulated water, this study provides an
extensible solution for improving the existing distributed hydrological models. Further, a parallel modeling and simulating platform
needs to be developed and validate to be applied in monitoring real world hydrologic processes.</p>
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