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Research article
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03 May 2018
Research article |
| 03 May 2018
Drainage area characterization for evaluating green infrastructure using the Storm Water Management Model
Center for Urban Green Infrastructure Engineering (CUGIE Inc), Cincinnati, OH 45255, USA
Christopher T. Nietch
Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection
Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
Srinivas Panguluri
Independent Consultant, Olney, MD 20832, USA
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Short summary
This paper demonstrates an approach to spatial discretization for analyzing green infrastructure (GI) using SWMM. Besides DCIA, pervious buffers should be identified for GI modeling. Runoff contributions from different spatial components and flow pathways would impact GI performance. The presented approach can reduce the number of calibration parameters and apply scale–independently to a watershed scale. Hydrograph separation can add insights for developing GI scenarios.
This paper demonstrates an approach to spatial discretization for analyzing green infrastructure...
