Author: Stanley Alcide ChangnonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Precipitation (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Rainfall Prediction-measurement Systems and Rainfall Design Information for Urban Areas
Author: Stanley Alcide ChangnonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Precipitation (Meteorology)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Urban Meteorology
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309252202
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
According to the United Nations, three out of five people will be living in cities worldwide by the year 2030. The United States continues to experience urbanization with its vast urban corridors on the east and west coasts. Although urban weather is driven by large synoptic and meso-scale features, weather events unique to the urban environment arise from the characteristics of the typical urban setting, such as large areas covered by buildings of a variety of heights; paved streets and parking areas; means to supply electricity, natural gas, water, and raw materials; and generation of waste heat and materials. Urban Meteorology: Forecasting, Monitoring, and Meeting Users' Needs is based largely on the information provided at a Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate community workshop. This book describes the needs for end user communities, focusing in particular on needs that are not being met by current urban-level forecasting and monitoring. Urban Meteorology also describes current and emerging meteorological forecasting and monitoring capabilities that have had and will likely have the most impact on urban areas, some of which are not being utilized by the relevant end user communities. Urban Meteorology explains that users of urban meteorological information need high-quality information available in a wide variety of formats that foster its use and within time constraints set by users' decision processes. By advancing the science and technology related to urban meteorology with input from key end user communities, urban meteorologists can better meet the needs of diverse end users. To continue the advancement within the field of urban meteorology, there are both short-term needs-which might be addressed with small investments but promise large, quick returns-as well as future challenges that could require significant efforts and investments.
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: Rainfall in Urban Areas
Author: P. BurlandoPublisher: IWA Publishing (International Water Assoc)
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Understanding rainfall processes and their distribution in time and space, as well as their fluctuations is crucial to most hydrological analyses, thereby including hydrology of urban areas characterised by a high sensitivity to intense rainfall events. Recent improvements in monitoring techniques and data collection, such as the development and the use of weather radars have improved the capabilities of the design of urban drainage systems, also allowing their real-time management during major storm events. Moreover, the development of analysis and modelling tools opened new frontiers towards the understanding of precipitation processes, also generating significant benefit for operational urban hydrology. Following the tradition of the previous workshops organised regularly since 1989, the millennium workshop held in Pontresina, Switzerland, outlined possible ways of bridging scientific achievements and practical applications for design and forecasting purposes. A number of interesting papers derived from the contributions presented at the workshop are collected in this special issue. New measurement techniques together with the consolidation of those already existing, new insights in the structure and properties of storms, investigations on statistical predictability under the constraint of climatic fluctuations, application oriented basic research and operational urban hydrology issues are the main content of this special edition. Not only do they suggest solutions, but they also inspire new questions and shed light on the expectations from the research of this new millennium.
The Journal of Weather Modification
Author: Municipal Stormwater Management
Author: Thomas N. DeboPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420032267
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Designed to be a stand alone desktop reference for the Stormwater manager, designer, and planner, the bestselling Municipal Stormwater Management has been expanded and updated. Here is what's new in the second edition: New material on complying with the NPDES program for Phase II and in running a stormwater quality programThe latest information on
Innovative Urban Wet-Weather Flow Management Systems
Author: Richard FieldPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781566769143
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The 20th century's automobile-inspired land use changes brought about tremendous transformations in how stormwater moves across the modern urban land-scape. Streets and parking areas in the average urban family's neighborhood now exceed the amount of land devoted to living space. Add parking, office and commercial space, and it's easy to understand how modern cities have experienced a three-fold increase in impervious areas. Traditional wet weather collection systems removed stormwater from urban areas as quickly as possible, often transferring problems downstream. Innovative Urban WetWeather Flow Management Systems does two things: It considers the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of urban runoff; then describes innovative methods for improving wet weather flow (WWF) management systems. The result of extensive research, Innovative Urban Wet-Weather Flow Manage-ment Systems looks most at how to handle runoff in developments of the 21st century: the confl icting objectives of providing drainage while decreasing stormwater pollutant discharges; the impact of urban WWF on surface and groundwater, such as smaller urban stream channels scoured by high peak flows; sediment transport and the toxic effects of WWF on aquatic organisms; the effectiveness of WWF controls-including design guidelines and source and downstream controls-are an important issue. Innovative Urban Wet-Weather Flow Management Systems looks at how source controls like biofi ltration, created through simple grading, may work in newly developing areas, while critical source areas like an auto service facilities, may need more extensive treatment strategies. Focusing WWF treatment on intensively used areas, such as the 20 percent of streets that handle the bulk of the traffic, and under utilized parking areas is also considered. Developing a more integrated water supply system-collecting, treating, and disposing of wastewater, and handling urban WWF-requires innovative methods, such as a neighborhood-scale system that would recycle treated wastewater and storm water for lawn watering and toilet flushing, or use treated roof runoff for potable purposes.
Investigations of Purposeful and Inadvertent Weather and Climate Modification and the Implications of Altered Atmospheric Conditions
Author: Stanley Alcide ChangnonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
ICT for Smart Water Systems: Measurements and Data Science
Author: Andrea ScozzariPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030619737
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Today, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a pervasive presence in almost every aspect of the management of water. There is no question that the collection of big data from sensing and the insights gained by smart analytics can bring massive benefits. This book focuses on new perspectives for the monitoring, assessment and control of water systems, based on tools and concepts originating from the ICT sector. It presents a portrait of up-to-date sensing techniques for water, and introduces concepts and implications with the analysis of the acquired data. Particular attention is given to the advancements in developing novel devices and data processing approaches. The chapters guide the reader through multiple disciplinary contexts, without aiming to be exhaustive, but with the effort to present relevant topics in such a highly multi-disciplinary framework. This book will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and stakeholders at various levels.