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Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems / / Patrick Willems ... [et al.]
| Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems / / Patrick Willems ... [et al.] |
| Autore | Willems Patrick <1970-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : IWA, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.5773091732 |
| Soggetto topico |
Rainfall anomalies
Drainage - Environmental aspects Climatic changes |
| ISBN |
9781780401263
1780401264 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- 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.
Chapter 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. More 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. |
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Potential hydrologic effects of a drainage system in McMillan delta and water impoundment in Brantley Reservoir, Eddy County, New Mexico / / by Thomas M. Crouch and G.E. Welder ; prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
| Potential hydrologic effects of a drainage system in McMillan delta and water impoundment in Brantley Reservoir, Eddy County, New Mexico / / by Thomas M. Crouch and G.E. Welder ; prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |
| Autore | Crouch Thomas M. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (v, 44 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Altri autori (Persone) | WelderG. E <1927-> (George E.) |
| Collana | Water-resources investigations report |
| Soggetto topico |
Drainage - Environmental aspects - New Mexico - Eddy County
Reservoirs - New Mexico - Eddy County Drainage - Environmental aspects Reservoirs |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910715202503321 |
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Crouch Thomas M.
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| Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1988 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sustainable drainage systems / / Miklas Scholz (ed.)
| Sustainable drainage systems / / Miklas Scholz (ed.) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Basel, Switzerland] : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 628.21 |
| Soggetto topico |
Drainage - Environmental aspects
Runoff - Management - Environmental aspects Flood control - Environmental aspects Storm sewers - Environmental aspects Hydraulic engineering - Environmental aspects Sustainable development |
| ISBN |
9783038420910
9783038420927 3038420921 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910367589603321 |
| [Basel, Switzerland] : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sustainable drainage systems / / Miklas Scholz (ed.)
| Sustainable drainage systems / / Miklas Scholz (ed.) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Basel, Switzerland] : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 628.21 |
| Soggetto topico |
Drainage - Environmental aspects
Runoff - Management - Environmental aspects Flood control - Environmental aspects Storm sewers - Environmental aspects Hydraulic engineering - Environmental aspects Sustainable development |
| ISBN |
9783038420910
9783038420927 3038420921 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910674400203321 |
| [Basel, Switzerland] : , : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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