Monitoring, understanding and modelling rainfall-runoff behaviour in two small residential urban catchments

Redfern, TW (2017) Monitoring, understanding and modelling rainfall-runoff behaviour in two small residential urban catchments PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

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Abstract

Understanding the urban rainfall-runoff process is an important challenge for the hydrological sciences. Urban areas exhibit a complex mosaic of surface covers, ranging from those of an anthropogenic origin to surfaces of a disturbed natural form, which exhibit varying hydrological behaviours. The urban rainfall-runoff process is managed to reduce the risk of flooding within urban areas, whilst also considering the volume of runoff that downstream water bodies receive. Efforts to understand and manage the urban rainfall-runoff process are often hampered by a lack of rainfall runoff data of sufficient temporal (length and/or frequency) and spatial resolution for locations of interest. Therefore, urban rainfall-runoff processes are typically estimated using hydrological models that attempt to characterise the physical nature of urban areas (using assumptions and estimates of surface hydrological behaviour), that rarely consider how small-scale variations in urban surface cover and hydraulic connectivity influence rainfall-runoff behaviour. This thesis investigates how variations in the physical design, hydraulic form and age of two residential developments of north Swindon (Arley Close and Winsley Close) influence ... (continues)

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Divisions:	Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2018 15:24
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2024 11:34
DOI:	10.17638/03020269
Supervisors:	Macdonald, Neil ORCID: 0000-0003-0350-7096 Reynard, Nick Kjeldsen, Thomas Miller, James
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3020269
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