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31 Aug 2021
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The impact of the spatiotemporal structure of rainfall on flood frequency over a small urban watershed: an approach coupling stochastic storm transposition and hydrologic modeling
Zhengzheng Zhou
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai,
China
James A. Smith
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, USA
Mary Lynn Baeck
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, USA
Daniel B. Wright
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
Brianne K. Smith
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York – Brooklyn College, New York, USA
Shuguang Liu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai,
China
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Short summary
The role of rainfall space–time structure in flood response is an important research issue in urban hydrology. This study contributes to this understanding in small urban watersheds. Combining stochastically based rainfall scenarios with a hydrological model, the results show the complexities of flood response for various return periods, implying the common assumptions of spatially uniform rainfall in urban flood frequency are problematic, even for relatively small basin scales.
The role of rainfall space–time structure in flood response is an important research issue in...
