Fractal analysis of urban catchments and their representation in semi-distributed models: imperviousness and sewer system

Gires, Auguste; Tchiguirinskaia, Ioulia; Schertzer, Daniel; Ochoa-Rodriguez, Susana; Willems, Patrick; Ichiba, Abdellah; Wang, Li-Pen; Pina, Rui; Van Assel, Johan; Bruni, Guendalina; Murla Tuyls, Damian; ten Veldhuis, Marie-Claire

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2361-2017

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Rainfall and urban hydrology

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Fractal analysis of urban catchments and their representation in semi-distributed models: imperviousness and sewer system

Auguste Gires, Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, Daniel Schertzer, Susana Ochoa-Rodriguez, Patrick Willems, Abdellah Ichiba, Li-Pen Wang, Rui Pina, Johan Van Assel, Guendalina Bruni, Damian Murla Tuyls, and Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis

Data sets

Data for "Fractal analysis of urban catchments and their representation in semi-distributed models: imperviousness and sewer system'' [Data set] A. Gires, I. Tchiguirinskaia, D. Schertzer, S. Ochoa-Rodriguez, P. Willems, A. Ichiba, and M.-C. ten Veldhuis https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.571181

Short summary

Data from 10 urban or peri-urban catchments located in five EU countries are used to analyze the imperviousness distribution and sewer network geometry. Consistent scale invariant features are retrieved for both (fractal dimensions can be defined), which enables to define a level of urbanization. Imperviousness representation in operational model is also found to exhibit scale-invariant features (even multifractality). The research was carried out as part of the UE INTERREG IV RainGain project.