Print Email Facebook Twitter Evaluating critical rainfall and catchment scale influence on hydrological response in urban areas Title Evaluating critical rainfall and catchment scale influence on hydrological response in urban areas Author Cristiano, E. (TU Delft Water Resources) ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (TU Delft Water Resources) Wright, Daniel B. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Smith, James A. (Princeton University) van de Giesen, N.C. (TU Delft Water Resources) Contributor Peleg, Nadav (editor) Molnar, Peter (editor) Date 2018 Abstract Rainfall spatial and temporal variability are key points in the prediction of hydrological response. At the same time, catchment scale and characteristics also play important roles, especially in urban areas, where the high level of imperviousness combined with intense and localised rainfall causes fast responses (Ochoa-Rodriguez et al., 2015). New instruments such as weather radars have been developed in recent decades able to better capture the spatial and temporal variability of storm events. At the same time, large improvements have been made to create high-resolution hydrological models that are able to represent the catchment with a high level of detail. However, the interactions between rainfall and catchment variability and their effects on the hydrological response remains poorly understood. In this work, we aim to evaluate the critical space and time scales that characterize rainfall variability and catchment characteristics in relation to hydrological response in urban areas. Critical scales based on dimensionless parameters developed in a previous work (Cristiano et al, 2018) will be evaluated for two urban areas in different climatological regions, one in Europe and one in the US. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e5c4436-2824-47f2-b464-85ee8985a9f9 DOI https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000347529 Publisher ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Source Rainfall monitoring, modelling and forecasting in urban environments.: _11th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas. Conference Proceedings Event Urban Rain: 11th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas, 2018-12-05 → 2018-12-07, Sporthotel Pontresina, Pontresina, Switzerland Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 E. Cristiano, Marie-claire ten Veldhuis, Daniel B. Wright, James A. Smith, N.C. van de Giesen Files PDF UrbanRain18ConferenceProceeding.pdf 793.58 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0e5c4436-2824-47f2-b464-85ee8985a9f9/datastream/OBJ/view