Geographic Concerns on Flood Climate and Flood Hydrology in Monsoon-Dominated Damodar River Basin, Eastern India

Table 4

Districtwise monsoonal rainfall-runoff estimation (2006–10) for Damodar River Basin.

(a) Monsoonal rainfall in mm

District	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Hazaribagh	977.3	1113.5	1498.5	965.2	576.1
Bokaro	938.9	1027.1	1184.8	945.9	871.3
Dhanbad	1079.7	1488.4	977.8	896.0	748.9
Burdwan	1280.1	1483.0	1361.8	977.0	745.9
Bankura	1201.9	1555.2	1371.6	1001.7	704.5

(b) Monsoonal runoff volume in million m³

District	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Hazaribagh	12520820	14345900	19504900	12358680	7144740
Bokaro	12006260	13188140	15301320	12100060	11100420
Dhanbad	13892980	19369560	12527520	11431400	9460260
Burdwan	16578340	19297200	17673120	12516800	9420060
Bankura	15530460	20264680	17804440	12847780	8865300

(c) Predicted runoff depth in mm

District	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Hazaribagh	628.55	720.17	979.16	620.41	358.67
Bokaro	602.72	662.05	768.13	607.43	557.25
Dhanbad	697.44	972.36	628.89	573.86	474.91
Burdwan	832.24	968.73	887.20	628.35	472.89
Bankura	779.64	1017.30	893.79	644.96	445.04

Data source: IMD, http://www.imd.gov.in/, retrieved on December 26, 2011.