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[et al.] 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon $cIWA$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78040-125-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the IGUR -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1. Need for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Urban Drainage -- 1.2. Overview of Climate Change Impact Assessment for Urban Drainage -- 1.3. Scope and Limitations -- 1.4. Book Outline -- Chapter 2: Modelling and analysis of rainfall extremes in a stationary context -- 2.1. Stochastic Rainfall Generation by Point Process Theory -- 2.2. Multifractal and Cascade Processes -- 2.3. Rainfall Disaggregation -- 2.4. Statistical Rainfall Extreme Value Analysis -- PDS/POT based analysis -- Extreme value distributions -- Distribution parameter estimation -- Regional analysis -- 2.5. IDF Relationships -- 2.6. Design Storms -- 2.7. Point Versus Areal Rainfall -- 2.8. Discussion -- Chapter 3: Variability, trends and non-stationarity in extreme rainfall and runoff -- 3.1. Trends in Rainfall Processes and Extremes -- Methods -- Results -- 3.2. Trends Versus Climate Oscillations -- 3.3. Trends in Urban Runoff: Changes due to Climate and Urbanization -- 3.4 Discussion -- Chapter 4: Climate models -- 4.1. Atmospheric Modelling -- Weather versus climate modelling -- Physical basis -- Boundary conditions -- Regional models -- 4.2. Climate Forcing Scenarios -- 4.3. GCM Simulations -- 4.4. Discussion -- Chapter 5: Dynamical approach to downscaling of rainfall -- 5.1. Dynamical Downscaling -- 5.2. Regional Climate Models (RCMs) -- RCMs in general -- Precipitation computation in RCMs -- Nesting in RCMs -- Local data for RCM simulations -- 5.3 RCM Simulations -- 5.4. Limited Area Models (LAMs) -- 5.5. Fine-Scale Rainfall Results in Case Studies -- Orography and rainfall -- Better results from dynamic downscaling -- Urban land use change and local rainfall -- 5.6. Discussion. 327 $aChapter 6: Evaluation of dynamically downscaled rainfall -- 6.1. Reliability of Climate Simulations by GCMs and RCMs -- 6.2. Reason of Differences between GCM/RCM Results and Observations -- 6.3. Uncertainty in Climate Impact Projections from Various GCMs/RCMs and Different Scenarios -- 6.4 Discussion -- Chapter 7: Statistical approach to downscaling of urban rainfall extremes -- 7.1. Motivation for Statistical Downscaling as Compared to Dynamical Downscaling -- 7.2. Delta Change and Climate Factors -- 7.3. Empirical Transfer Functions -- General empirical downscaling -- Separation of downscaling and bias correction steps -- Quantile mapping -- 7.4. Re-Sampling Methods or Weather Typing -- 7.5. Conditional Probability-based or Stochastic Modelling -- 7.6. Verification of Statistically Downscaled Climate Model Results -- 7.7. Discussion -- Chapter 8: Future changes in rainfall extremes -- 8.1. At-Site Changes in Rainfall Extremes -- 8.2. Regional Changes in Rainfall Extremes -- 8.3. Uncertainty in Rainfall Changes -- 8.4. Discussion -- Chapter 9: Future impacts on urban drainage -- 9.1 Generation of Rainfall Input for Urban Drainage Impact Calculation -- Event-based versus continuous simulation based approaches -- Accounting for impact uncertainties -- 9.2. Impacts on Urban Drainage Flows, Sewer Floods, Surcharges and Overflows -- Impacts of climate change only -- Impacts of climate change and/versus urbanization -- 9.3. Other Types of Sewer Impacts -- 9.4. Discussion -- Chapter 10: Climate change adaptation and flexible design -- 10.1. Scope and Purpose of Adaptation -- Choice of adaptation strategy -- Need for adaptation within the urban drainage sector -- 10.2. New Design Philosophies and Adaptation Options in Urban Drainage -- Decentralized local storage to cope with the increased rainfall variability. 327 $aMore efficient use of available storage capacities -- Limitations of retro-fitting cities with decentralized storage and/or larger sewer systems -- Urban flood forecasting and warning -- Water quantity-quality interaction -- Interaction with receiving waters -- Cross-disciplinary approach -- 10.3. Coping with Uncertainty: Flexible Designs -- 10.4. Adaptive Management and Active Learning -- 10.5. Discussion -- Chapter 11: Concluding remarks -- 11.1. Key Messages from this Book -- 11.2. Future Developments -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Use of open source software R for statistical downscaling and rainfall extreme value analysis -- A.1. Introduction -- A.2. R Packages -- A.3. Extreme Value Analysis (POT) -- A.4. Non-stationary GPD Parameter Estimation (ismev) -- Appendix B: Use of Matlab for statistical downscaling and bias correction of RCM precipitation by quantile-quantile mapping -- B.1. Introduction -- B.2. Step-by-step Procedure -- B.3. Final Remarks -- Appendix C: Running Weather Research Forecast (WRF) Limited Area Atmospheric Model (LAM) on PC -- C.1. Learning Objectives -- C.2. Structure of this Tutorial -- C.3. Background -- The traditional challenge in using LAMs -- STRC Environmental Model System (EMS) -- Yet-another WRF tutorial? -- C.4. Installing WRF-live System on Your PC -- System requirements -- Install VMware player -- Install and start WRF-live system -- The terminal -- A look around your WRF-Live system -- C.5. Mumbai Case Study -- Background -- Setting up the domain -- Initial and boundary condition -- Run the simulation -- Post processing the results -- Plot rainfall -- Finishing off -- Getting files out -- C.6. Where to Go from Here -- Utilizing multiple processor cores -- Do we need VMware? -- Chimplot and others -- More information -- Index. 330 $aImpacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems provides a state-of-the-art overview of existing methodologies and relevant results related to the assessment of the climate change impacts on urban rainfall extremes as well as on urban hydrology and hydraulics. 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