Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2361-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2361-2017
Research article
 | 
08 May 2017
Research article |  | 08 May 2017

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

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (20 Mar 2017) by Chris Onof
AR by Auguste Gires on behalf of the Authors (21 Mar 2017)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Mar 2017) by Chris Onof
AR by Auguste Gires on behalf of the Authors (02 Apr 2017)  Manuscript 
Download
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.