Design Criteria of Urban Drainage Infrastructures under Climate Change

Mailhot, Alain; Duchesne, Sophie

doi:10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000023

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“…The main applications of the UDS models are for the design of infrastructures [12,91], and to design modelbased controllers [92]. The features of each model should be evaluated for an appropriate selection of one of them.…”

Section: Modeling Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

Garcia¹,

Barreiro-Gómez

Escobar³

et al. 2015

Advances in Water Resources

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Urban drainage systems (UDS) may be considered large-scale systems given their large number of associated states and decision actions, making challenging their real-time control (RTC) design. Moreover, the complexity of the dynamics of the UDS makes necessary the development of strategies for the control design. This paper reviews and discusses several techniques and strategies commonly used for the control of UDS. Moreover, the models to describe, simulate, and control the transport of wastewater in UDS are also reviewed.

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Section: Modeling Approachesmentioning

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Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

Garcia¹,

Barreiro-Gómez

Escobar³

et al. 2015

Advances in Water Resources

179

111

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“…Despite the fact that more than 80 % of wastewater was treated in high-income countries (Baum et al, 2013), a majority of their sewage systems was installed 30-50 years ago or even more (Willems, 2013). These systems were approaching their useful life (O'Neill, 2010), and rather old to cope with the new intensified rainfall regime (Mailhot and Duchesne, 2010). They need to be re-installed, repaired or replaced for the demand of climate change adaptation.…”

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“…The reality proved the contradiction when the climatic factors were not stable but changed faster under the shade of climate change (O'Neill, 2010). Revisions in intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) statistics and design storms have been proposed in the US, Canada, Belgium, Norway and Sweden (Mailhot and Duchesne, 2010;O'Neill, 2010;Willems, 2013). Although all of them agreed that the return of designated storm was shortened, the recurrence interval was not somewhat agreed.…”

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“…Three common factors that contributed to the uncertainty were: (1) long projection period, (2) insufficient data to forecast future climate scenarios, and (3) sophistication of the model (Hughes et al, 2010;Mailhot and Duchesne, 2010;O'Neill, 2010). It definitely hindered efforts of scientists to persuade the decision-makers to judge on such type of project.…”

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A mini-review on the impacts of climate change on wastewater reclamation and reuse

Ngo

Guo

et al. 2014

Science of The Total Environment

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To tackle current water insecurity concerns, wastewater reclamation and reuse has appeared as a promising candidate to conserve the valuable fresh water sources whilst increasing the efficiency of material utilization. The climate change, nevertheless, poses both opportunities and threats to the wastewater reclamation industry. Whereas it elevates the social perception on water-related issues and fosters an emerging water-reuse market, the climate change simultaneously presents adverse impacts on the water reclamation scheme, either directly or indirectly. These effects were studied fragmentally in separate realms. Hence, this paper aims to link these studies for providing a thorough understanding about the consequences of the climate change on the wastewater reclamation and reuse. It initially summarizes contemporary treatment processes and their reuse purposes before carrying out a systematic analysis of available findings.

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“…Deriving design rainfall estimates under climate variability and climate change raises two questions: firstly, are climate variations driving changes in rainfall extremes that significantly affect design rainfall estimates; and secondly, what measures would be required to adapt to such changes? Mailhot and Duchesne (2010) discuss how to define design criteria under climate change. They state: "[.…”

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Non-stationarity in daily and sub-daily intense rainfall – Part 2: Regional assessment for sites in south-east Australia

Jakob

Karoly

Seed³

2011

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Using data for a common period for a set of 31 sites located in south-east Australia, variations in frequency and magnitude of intense rainfall events across durations from 6 min to 72 h were assessed. This study was driven by a need to clarify how variations in climate might affect intense rainfall and the potential for flooding. Subdaily durations are of particular interest for urban applications. Worldwide, few such observation-based studies exist, which is mainly due to limitations in data.Analysis of seasonality in frequency and magnitude of events revealed considerable variation across the set of sites, implying different dominating rainfall-producing mechanisms and/or interactions with local topography. Both these factors are relevant when assessing the potential effects of climate variations on intense rainfall events. The set of sites was therefore split into groups ("north cluster" and "south cluster") according to the characteristics of intense rainfall events. There is a strong polarisation in the nature of changes found for the north cluster and south cluster. While sites in the north cluster typically exhibit decrease in frequency of events, particularly in autumn and at durations of 1 h and longer; sites in the south cluster experience an increase in frequency of events, particularly for summer and sub-hourly durations.Non-stationarity found in historical records has the potential to significantly affect design rainfall estimates. An assessment of quantile estimates derived using a standard regionalisation technique and periods representative of record lengths available for practical applications show that such estimates may not be representative of long-term conditions, so alternative approaches need to be considered, particularly where short records are concerned. Additional rainfall Correspondence to: D. Jakob (d.jakob@bom.gov.au) information, in particular radar data, could be used for an indepth spatial analysis of intense rainfall events.

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Design Criteria of Urban Drainage Infrastructures under Climate Change

Cited by 189 publications

References 33 publications

Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

Modeling and real-time control of urban drainage systems: A review

A mini-review on the impacts of climate change on wastewater reclamation and reuse

Non-stationarity in daily and sub-daily intense rainfall – Part 2: Regional assessment for sites in south-east Australia

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