Continuous simulations of urban stormwater runoff and total suspended solids loads: influence of varying climatic inputs and catchment imperviousness

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Borris ◽  
Anna-Maria Gustafsson ◽  
Jiri Marsalek ◽  
Maria Viklander
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Total Suspended Solids ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Road Maintenance ◽  
Urban Catchments ◽  
Urban Stormwater Runoff ◽  
Rainfall Regimes

Potential implications of climate change for future stormwater management were addressed by undertaking continuous simulations of runoff and total suspended solids (TSS) loads for three urban catchments, with imperviousness varying from 23 to 63%, which were exposed to five rainfall regimes during the snow-free part of the year: the current climate and four climate change scenarios projecting higher rainfalls. Simulated runoff volumes increased in all the future scenarios, particularly in the sub-arctic climate and the fixed uplift scenario (plus20) indicating appreciable rainfall increases. Simulated runoff volumes increased depending on the projected increases in rainfall and increasing runoff contributions from pervious areas when more intense future rainfalls exceeded hydrologic abstractions. The increased runoff volumes then contributed higher TSS loads, which were highly variable for the rainfall regimes tested. In cold climate regions, residues of solids from winter road maintenance may contribute to high initial accumulations of TSS on the catchment surface and high washed off loads. In general, the study suggests that intermediate design-life stormwater management facilities require flexible design allowing for future step-wise adaptation by gradually increasing design capacities and modifying treatment trains.

scholarly journals Effects of Climatic Change on the Potential Distribution of Lycoriella Species (Diptera: Sciaridae) of Economic Importance

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 831
Author(s):  
Roberta Marques ◽  
Juliano Lessa Pinto Duarte ◽  
Adriane da Fonseca Duarte ◽  
Rodrigo Ferreira Krüger ◽  
Uemmerson Silva da Cunha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Range Expansion ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Potential Range ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Ecological Niche Models ◽  
Greenhouse Production ◽  
Production Areas

Lycoriella species (Sciaridae) are responsible for significant economic losses in greenhouse production (e.g., mushrooms, strawberries, and nurseries). The current distributions of species in the genus are restricted to cold-climate countries. Three species of Lycoriella are of particular economic concern in view of their ability to invade areas in countries across the Northern Hemisphere. We used ecological niche models to determine the potential for range expansion under future climate change scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) in the distribution of these three species of Lycoriella. Stable environmental suitability under climate change was a dominant theme in these species; however, potential range increases were noted in key countries (e.g., USA, Brazil, and China). Our results illustrate the potential for range expansion in these species in the Southern Hemisphere, including some of the highest greenhouse production areas in the world.

scholarly journals Development of a bio-retention system for urban storm water management

2021 ◽  
Vol 889 (1) ◽  
pp. 012075
Author(s):  
Polimerra Venkata Koti Reddy ◽  
Pramod Kumar ◽  
Siby John
Keyword(s):  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Blast Furnace Slag ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Total Suspended Solids ◽  
Ph Variation ◽  
Retention System ◽  
Water Courses ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Furnace Slag ◽  
Urban Storm

Abstract Urban stormwater that flows through all the manmade structures contains high levels of BOD TSS, orthophosphate, surfactants etc. It raises concerns of water quality in the receiving natural water courses. Bio-retention is one of the prominent methods of stormwater management for the removal of contaminants from stormwater. In this esxperimental study, a column containing mulch, blast furnace slag, sand, silt etc. was used to assess the removal of suspended solids and nutrients (nitrate and phosphate) from stormwater. The tests were conducted with a flow through period of 3, 7 and 15 days. Removal efficiency of 80% total suspended solids for 15 day, 60% nitrate for 7 days and 70% phosphorous for 3 and 7 days was observed through the column. pH variation was found to be insignificant in the range of 6-7.5.

scholarly journals Environmental response to the cold climate event 8200 years ago as recorded at Højby Sø, Denmark

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 57-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Rasmussen ◽  
Mikkel Ulfeldt Hede ◽  
Nanna Noe-Nygaard ◽  
Annemarie L. Clarke ◽  
Rolf D. Vinebrooke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Lake Ecosystem ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic

The need for accurate predictions of future environmental change under conditions of global warming has led to a great interest in the most pronounced climate change known from the Holocene: an abrupt cooling event around 8200 years before present (present = A.D. 1950), also known as the ‘8.2 ka cooling event’ (ka = kilo-annum = 1000 years). This event has been recorded as a negative δ18O excursion in the central Greenland ice cores (lasting 160 years with the lowest temperature at 8150 B.P.; Johnsen et al. 1992; Dansgaard 1993; Alley et al. 1997; Thomas et al. 2007) and in a variety of other palaeoclimatic archives including lake sediments, ocean cores, speleothems, tree rings, and glacier oscillations from most of the Northern Hemisphere (e.g. Alley & Ágústsdóttir 2005; Rohling & Pälike 2005). In Greenland the maximum cooling was estimated to be 6 ± 2°C (Alley et al. 1997) while in southern Fennoscandia and the Baltic countries pollenbased quantitative temperature reconstructions indicate a maximum annual mean temperature decrease of around 1.5°C (e.g. Seppä et al. 2007). Today there is a general consensus that the primary cause of the cooling event was the final collapse of the Laurentide ice sheet near Hudson Bay and the associated sudden drainage of the proglacial Lake Agassiz into the North Atlantic Ocean around 8400 B.P. (Fig. 1; Barber et al. 1999; Kleiven et al. 2008). This freshwater outflow, estimated to amount to c. 164,000 km3 of water, reduced the strength of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation and thereby the heat transported to the North Atlantic region, resulting in an atmospheric cooling (Barber et al. 1999; Clark et al. 2001; Teller et al. 2002). The climatic consequences of this meltwater flood are assumed to be a good geological analogue for future climate-change scenarios, as a freshening of the North Atlantic is projected by almost all global-warming models (e.g. Wood et al. 2003; IPCC 2007) and is also currently being registered in the region (Curry et al. 2003). In an ongoing project, the influence of the 8.2 ka cooling event on a Danish terrestrial and lake ecosystem is being investigated using a variety of biological and geochemical proxy data from a sediment core extracted from Højby Sø, north-west Sjælland (Fig. 2). Here we present data on changes in lake hydrology and terrestrial vegetation in response to climate change, inferred from macrofossil data and pollen analysis, respectively.

scholarly journals An investigation on suspended solids sources in urban stormwater runoff using 7Be and 210 Pb as tracers

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 1945-1950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengqing Yin ◽  
Liqing Li
Keyword(s):  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Suspended Solid ◽  
Storm Runoff ◽  
Storm Events ◽  
Transport Pathways ◽  
A Value ◽  
Urban Catchments ◽  
Urban Stormwater Runoff

Radionuclides 7Be and 210Pb were used as tracers to identify suspended solid sources and transport pathways in the storm runoff events from urban catchments. Water samples were collected in runoff of storm events in Wuhan City, China. Suspended solids, COD, TN, TP, and the 7Be and 210Pb activities in the suspended solids were analyzed. Following the pathway of urban runoff pollution, the rain precipitation, urban ground dust, gutter sediments, and sewer deposit samples were analyzed for 7Be and 210Pb activities. The results show that the 7Be/210Pb ratio decreased through the system from a value of 0.86±0.44 in ground dust, to 0.63±0.18 in suspended solids in storm runoff from the sewer outlet, to 0.55±0.31 in gutter sediments, and to 0.41±0.13 in combined sewer deposits. The 7Be/210Pb ratio decrease suggests that 60±12% of suspended solids at sewer outlet originated from the drainage system sediments, the rest was from the wash-off of urban ground dust during the rainfall events. The 7Be and 210Pb trace approach can give insight into the short-term source and transport of pollutant during storm runoff in urban drainage systems and it can help to develop management strategies.

Stormwater management by low impact development practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-86
Author(s):  
Melika Mani ◽  
Sayed Bateni ◽  
Omid Bozorg-Haddad ◽  
Amanda Cording
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Stormwater Runoff ◽  
Urban Pollutants ◽  
Hydrologic Regimes ◽  
Urban Catchments ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Runoff Quality

Abstract Due to the effects of climate change, urban and suburban expansion, and urban pollutants on runoff quality and quantity, applying contemporary stormwater management approaches in urban areas have become more critical. Low impact development (LID) practices are environmentally friendly stormwater management methods, seeking to replicate the natural hydrologic regimes in urban areas. They have become popular methods to reduce/prevent adverse stormwater runoff impacts in urban catchments, mainly by improving on-site infiltration or harvesting and reusing runoff. This study introduces LID practices and the importance of using them. Thereafter, the structure, benefits, and limitations of common LID practices are explained to help water resource engineers and urban planners have a better understanding of these practices, and choose the most suitable LID practice based on the needs of the project and features of the site.

scholarly journals Assessing Hydrological Effects of Bioretention Cells for Urban Stormwater Runoff in Response to Climatic Changes

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mo Wang ◽  
Dongqing Zhang ◽  
Siwei Lou ◽  
Qinghe Hou ◽  
Yijie Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Multiple Parameters ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Stormwater Runoff ◽  
Peak Runoff ◽  
Slight Growth

An investigation into the effectiveness of bioretention cells (BCs) under potential climatic changes was conducted using representative concentration pathways. A case study of Guangzhou showed changes in peak runoff in climate change scenarios, with obvious growth in RCP8.5 and slight growth in RCP2.6. The performance of BCs on multiple parameters, including reduction of runoff volume, peak runoff, and first flush, were examined in different design storms using a hydrology model (SWMM). The effectiveness of BCs varied non-linearly with scale. Their performance fell by varying amounts in the various scenarios. BCs could provide sufficient effects in response to short-return-period and short-duration storms, but the performance of BCs decreased with heavy storms, especially considering climate change. Hence, BCs cannot replace grey infrastructure but should be integrated with them. The method developed in this study could be useful in the planning and design of low impact development in view of future climate changes.

scholarly journals Changes in Köppen-Geiger climate types under a future climate for Australia: hydrological implications

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 3341-3349 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Crosbie ◽  
D. W. Pollock ◽  
F. S. Mpelasoka ◽  
O. V. Barron ◽  
S. P. Charles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Models ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Temperate Climate ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Australian Continent

Abstract. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification has been used for over a century to delineate climate types across the globe. As it was developed to mimic the distribution of vegetation, it may provide a useful surrogate for making projections of the future distribution of vegetation, and hence resultant hydrological implications, under climate change scenarios. This paper developed projections of the Köppen-Geiger climate types covering the Australian continent for a 2030 and 2050 climate relative to a 1990 historical baseline climate using 17 Global Climate Models (GCMs) and five global warming scenarios. At the highest level of classification for a +2.4 °C future climate (the upper limit projected for 2050) relative to the historical baseline, it was projected that the area of the continent covered by – tropical climate types would increase from 8.8% to 9.1%; – arid climate types would increase from 76.5% to 81.7%; – temperate climate types would decrease from 14.7% to 9.2%; – cold climate types would decrease from 0.016% to 0.001%. Previous climate change impact studies on water resources in Australia have assumed a static vegetation distribution. If the change in projected climate types is used as a surrogate for a change in vegetation, then the major transition in climate from temperate to arid in parts of Australia under a drier future climate could cause indirect effects on water resources. A transition from annual cropping to perennial grassland would have a compounding effect on the projected reduction in recharge. In contrast, a transition from forest to grassland would have a mitigating effect on the projected reduction in runoff.

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