Urban water dissipation calculation based on the improved water balance models

Evapotranspiration in Urban Water Balance Models: A Methodological Framework

This paper addresses the current imperative to develop and test urban ET algorithms, incorporate these into urban water balance models, and develop these into tools to underpin and guide Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and integrated urban water management. Two approaches to modelling the urban water balance focusing specifically on urban evapotranspiration are presented: i) SUES (Single-so...

Modelling the impact of Water Sensitive Urban Design technologies on the urban water cycle Modelling the impact of Water Sensitive Urban Design technologies on the urban water cycle

Integration of water balance models in RIVERTWIN

In the project RIVERTWIN climate, hydrologic, groundwater and water quality models are integrated in order to evaluate river basin management plans established for the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. In such integrated models, which try to simulate all relevant processes in a river basin realistically, modelling of the water balance plays a key role. Therefore the integratio...

Effects of Dynamic Forcing on Hillslope Water Balance Models

Recently there has been much interest in scaling water flow and species transport at the continuum level to the watershed. A particularly simple and, therefore, appealing approach is based on the water mass balance at the hillslope scale. Such models require parameterization of closure relations (flux–storage relations) based on field data. In several recent studies, this data was instead gener...

Modelling the Effects of Long-term Urban Land Use Change on the Water Balance

The level of land consumption for housing and transport contrasts sharply with both the necessity and the legal obligation to maintain the ecological potential afforded by open spaces to meet the needs of current and future generations in terms of resource protection and climate change. Owing to the increasing intensity of soil usage, in many urban landscapes the soil conditions has deteriorate...