APPENDIX: Origin of the term Muskingum-Cunge 🌊📖
The term "Muskingum" springs from the Muskingum River in eastern Ohio 🏞️. It echoes a Delaware-language Native American word, thought to mean "Eye of the Elk" 👁️🦌. This term entered hydrologic vernacular thanks to G. T. McCarthy, who coined "Muskingum method" in 1938 in an unpublished manuscript, later cited by Chow in 1959 📚. McCarthy applied his innovative flood routing method to the Muskingum River, thus inspiring the name.
Jean A. Cunge 🇵🇱🇫🇷
The "Cunge" part of the name honors Jean A. Cunge, a Polish-French engineer. In 1969, Cunge published pivotal equations integral to the Muskingum-Cunge method 📈🌍. The fusion of these two names, Muskingum-Cunge, first appeared in 1975 in the Flood Studies Report by the Natural Environment Research Council in London 🇬🇧📄. Fast forward to 1990, and the Muskingum-Cunge method became a staple in U.S. hydrologic engineering, incorporated into the HEC-1 model by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 🇺🇸💧. Evolving further, in 1998, HEC-1 evolved with a graphical user interface (GUI), transforming into the HEC-HMS model 💻🌐.
Source: https://ton.sdsu.edu/muskingum_cunge_method_explained.html
