Data of daily precipitation recorded by pluviometers are more easily found than those from pluviographic data. This often constitutes a limitation for hydrological applications such as the rainfall-runoff transformation, which needs to feed on short duration precipitation data. To overcome this constraint, the development of disaggregation models for daily precipitation has been sought for a long time. The aim of this study was to compare different runoff hydrograms resulting from hyetogram estimates from Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) relationship between pluviometric and pluviographic data for the location of Pelotas, RS-Brazil. The relationship method was used to calculate daily precipitation disaggregation, while the runoff depth and its propagation were over a 7 km² area and were determined through the methodology proposed by SCS (1972). The findings lead to the conclusion that the peak runoff values showed a difference of 12.6, -4.4, 21.8, 38.7, 54.3 and 58.2%, for return periods of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 years, respectively, when calculated through the IDF ratio, as compared to the analytical equation.
hyetogram; relationship method; intensity-duration-frequency; peak runoff flow
