3,087
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Using rainfall measures to evaluate hydrologic performance of green infrastructure systems under climate change

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 156-180 | Received 04 Feb 2019, Accepted 03 Oct 2019, Published online: 19 Nov 2019

References

  • A&L Great Lakes Laboratories, Inc. (2015). Soil Test Report for ELPC Rain Garden Soils Taken on 2/10/2015.
  • Allegheny County Sanitary Authority. (2012). ALCOSAN wet weather plan. Retrieved from http://www.alcosan.org/WetWeatherIssues/ALCOSANDraftWetWeatherPlan/DraftWWPFullDocument/tabid/176/Default.aspx
  • Baltimore City Department Public Works. (2017). Stormwater remediation fee regulations. Retrieved from https://publicworks.baltimorecity.gov/sites/default/files/Stormwater%20Remediation%20Fee%20Regulations.pdf
  • Bartos, M., Wong, B., & Kerkez, B. (2018). Open storm: A complete framework for sensing and control of urban watersheds. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 4(3), 346–358.
  • Brommer, D. M., Cerveny, R. S., & Balling, R. C., Jr. (2007). Characteristics of long‐duration precipitation events across the United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L22712.
  • Brown, R. A., & Hunt, W. F., III. (2010). Impacts of media depth on effluent water quality and hydrologic performance of undersized bioretention cells. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 137(3), 132–143.
  • Bukovsky, M. (2011). Masks for the Bukovsky regionalization of North America, regional integrated sciences collective. Institute for mathematics applied to geosciences, national center for atmospheric research. Boulder, CO: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
  • Bukovsky, M., Thompson, J. A., & Mearns, L. O. (2019). Weighting a regional climate model ensemble: Does it make a difference? Can it make a difference? Climate Research, 77(1), 23–43.
  • Casal-Campos, A., Guangtao, F., Butler, D., & Moore, A. (2015). An integrated environmental assessment of green and gray infrastructure strategies for robust decision making. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(14), 8307–8314.
  • CH2MHILL. (2014). Stormwater management fee policy options and recommendations. Philadelphia, PA: City of Lancaster.
  • CH2MHILL, and Viridian Landscape Studio. (2011). Stormwater/Landscape Greening Project East Liberty Presbyterian Church.
  • Chagrin Watershed Partners. (2017). Stormwater utility literature review. Retrieved from http://crwp.org/files/Literature_Review_by_Credit_Type.pdf
  • Chapman, C., & Horner, R. R. (2010). Performance assessment of a street-drainage bioretention system. Water Environment Research, 82(2), 109–119.
  • Chen, D., Achberger, C., Ou, T., Postgård, U., Walther, A., & Liao, Y (2015). Projecting future local precipitation and its extremes for Sweden. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 97(1), 25–39.
  • Computational Hydraulics Int. (2018). PCSWMM. Guelph, ON: chiwater. https://www.pcswmm.com/
  • Cook, L. M. (2018). Using climate change projections to increase the resilience of stormwater infrastructure designs under Uncertainty. Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Cook, L. M., Anderson, C. J., & Samaras, C. (2017). Framework for incorporating downscaled climate output into existing engineering methods: Application to precipitation frequency curves. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 23(4), 04017027.
  • D’Agostino, R., & Pearson, E. S. (1973). Tests for departure from normality. Empirical results for the distributions of b 2 and√ B. Biometrika, 60(3), 613–622.
  • Davis, A. P., Hunt, W. F., Traver, R. G., & Clar, M. (2009). Bioretention technology: Overview of current practice and future needs. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 135(3), 109–117.
  • Davis, A. P., Traver, R. G., Hunt, W. F., Lee, R., Brown, R. A., & Olszewski, J. M. (2012). Hydrologic performance of bioretention storm-water control measures. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 17(5), 604–614.
  • De Neufville, R., & Scholtes, S. (2011). Flexibility in engineering design. Cambridge MA and London: The MIT Press.
  • Demuzere, M., Orru, K., Heidrich, O., Olazabal, E., Geneletti, D., Orru, H., … & Faehnle, M. (2014). Mitigating and adapting to climate change: Multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure. Journal of Environmental Management, 146, 107–115.
  • Dietz, M. E., & Clausen, J. C. (2005). A field evaluation of rain garden flow and pollutant treatment. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 167(1–4), 123–138.
  • Durrans, S. R., Burian, S. J., Nix, S. J., Hajji, A., Pitt, R. E., Fan, C. Y., & Field, R. (1999). Polynomial-based disaggregation of hourly rainfall for continuous hydrologic simulation. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 35(5), 1213–1221.
  • Environmental Finance Center at the UNC School of Government. (2017). North Carolina stormwater rates and revenues - Preliminary analysis. Retrieved from https://efc.sog.unc.edu/sites/default/files/2017/NC%20Stormwater%20Chart%20Clean%202017_1_0.pdf
  • Fischbach, J. R., Siler-Evans, K., Tierney, D., Wilson, M. T., Cook, L. M., & May, L. W. (2017). Robust Stormwater Management in the Pittsburgh Region.
  • Foster, J., Lowe, A., & Winkelman, S. (2011). The value of green infrastructure for urban climate adaptation. Center for Clean Air Policy, 750, 19–20.
  • Gregersen, I. B., & Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K. (2012). Decision strategies for handling the uncertainty of future extreme rainfall under the influence of climate change. Water Science and Technology : a Journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research, 66(2), 284–291.
  • Gregersen, I. B., Sørup, H. J. D., Madsen, H., Rosbjerg, D., Mikkelsen, P. S., & Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K. (2013). Assessing future climatic changes of rainfall extremes at small spatio-temporal scales. Climatic Change, 118(3–4), 783–797.
  • Groisman, P. Y., Knight, R. W., & Karl, T. R. (2012). Changes in intense precipitation over the central United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 13(1), 47–66.
  • Hall, A. (2014). Projecting regional change modeling regional climate change: How accurate are regional projections of climate change derived from downscaling global climate model results? Science, 34(6216), 1461–1462.
  • Hathaway, J. M., Brown, R. A., Fu, J. S., & Hunt, W. F. (2014). Bioretention function under climate change scenarios in North Carolina, USA. Journal of Hydrology, 519, 503–511. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.07.037
  • Heavens, N. G., Ward, D. S., & Natalie, M. M. (2013). Studying and projecting climate change with earth system models. Nature Education Knowledge, 4(5), 4.
  • IPCC. (2014). Climate change 2014: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Part A: Global and sectoral aspects. contribution of working group II to the fifth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (Eds.)]. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Jennings, A. A. (2016). Residential rain garden performance in the climate zones of the contiguous United States. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 142(12), 04016066.
  • Jennings, A. A., Berger, M. A., & Hale, J. D. (2015). Hydraulic and hydrologic performance of residential rain gardens. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 141(11), 04015033.
  • Karl, T. R., & Knight, R. W. (1998). Secular trends of precipitation amount, frequency, and intensity in the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79(2), 231–241.
  • Karl, T. R., Nicholls, N., & Ghazi, A. (1999). Clivar/GCOS/WMO workshop on indices and indicators for climate extremes workshop summary. In T. R. Karl, N. Nicholls, A. Ghazi (Eds.), Weather and climate extremes (pp. 3–7). Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Kerkez, B., Gruden, C., Lewis, M., Montestruque, L., Quigley, M., Wong, B., … & Poresky, A. (2016). Smarter Stormwater Systems.
  • Kianfar, B., Fatichi, S., Paschalis, A., Maurer, M., & Molnar, P. (2016). Climate change and uncertainty in high-resolution rainfall extremes. Hydrology Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2016, 1–17.
  • Kloss, C., Calarusse, C., & Stoner, N. (2006). Rooftops to rivers: Green strategies for controlling stormwater and combined sewer overflows. New York, NY: Natural Resources Defense Council.
  • Lempert, R., & Schlesinger, M. (2001). Climate-change strategy needs to be robust. Nature, 412(6845), 375.
  • McCuen, Richard. H. (2005). Hydrologic Analysis and Design. 3rd ed. Pearson Prentice Hall.
  • McGinnis, S., Nychka, D., & Mearns, L. O. (2015). A new distribution mapping technique for climate model bias correction. In V. Lakshmanan, E. Gilleland, A. McGovern, & T. Martin (Eds.), Machine learning and data mining approaches to climate science (pp. 91–99). Cham: Springer.
  • Mearns, L. O.,  McGinnis, S., Korytina, D., Arritt, R., Biner, S., Bukovsky, M., ... Gutowski, W. (2017, January 11). The NA-CORDEX dataset, version 1.0. Boulder, CO: NCAR Climate Data Gateway. doi:10.5065/D6SJ1JCH.
  • Melillo, J. M., Richmond, T. T. C., & Yohe, G. W. (2014). Climate change impacts in the United States. Third National Climate Assessment, 32–37.
  • Mostafavi, A. (2018). A system-of-systems framework for exploratory analysis of climate change impacts on civil infrastructure resilience. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 3(4), 175–192.
  • Mustaffa, N., Ahmad, N. A., & Razi, M. A. M. (2016, July). Variations of roughness coefficients with flow depth of grassed swale. In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 136, No. 1, pp. 012082). IOP Publishing.
  • NOAA. (2016). National centers for environmental information. Retrieved from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
  • PA DEP. (2006). Pennsylvania stormwater best management practices manual. Harrisburg, PA: Bureau of Watershed Management. http://pecpa.org/wp-content/uploads/Stormwater-BMP-Manual.pdf
  • Peterson, T., Folland, C., Gruza, G., Hogg, W., Mokssit, A., & Plummer, N. (2001). Report on the activities of the working group on climate change detection and related rapporteurs. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva: International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO).
  • Rawls, W. J., Brakensiek, D. L., & Miller, N. (1983). Green-Ampt infiltration parameters from soils data. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 109(1), 62–70. .
  • Riahi, K., Rao, S., Krey, V., Cho, C., Chirkov, V., Fischer, G., … & Rafaj, P. (2011). RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions. Climatic Change, 109(1), 33.
  • Rossman, L. (2015) Storm Water Management Model User’s Manual Version 5.1 - manual. US EPA Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-14/413 (NTIS EPA/600/R-14/413b).
  • Rossman, L. A., & Huber, W. C. (2016). Storm water management model reference manual volume III – water quality. Washington, D.C.: US EPA Office of Research and Development.
  • Sell, E., Beadle, K., & Read, N. (2009). Mosquitoes and rain gardens: An update. St. Paul, MN: Metro Mosquito Control District.
  • Thakali, R., Kalra, A., Ahmad, S., & Qaiser, K. (2018). Management of an urban stormwater system using projected future scenarios of climate models: A watershed-based modeling approach. Open Water Journal, 5(2), 1.
  • U.S. EPA. (2016, June 19). “What is green infrastructure?” Green infrastructure. Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/what-green-infrastructure
  • Wadzuk, B. M., Lewellyn, C., Lee, R., & Traver, R. G. (2017). Green infrastructure recovery: Analysis of the influence of back-to-back rainfall events. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 3(1), 04017001.
  • Washington State Legislature. (2000). Chapter 173-245 wac submission of plans and reports for construction and operation of combined sewer overflow reduction facilities. Retrieved from https://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=173-245&full=true#173-245-080
  • Westra, S., Fowler, H. J., Evans, J. P., Alexander, L. V., Berg, P., Johnson, F., … & Roberts, N. M. (2014). Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short-duration extreme rainfall. Reviews of Geophysics, 52(3), 522–555.
  • William, R., Gardoni, P., & Stillwell, A. S. (2018). Reliability-based approach to investigating long-term clogging in green stormwater infrastructure. Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 5(1), 04018015.
  • Zhang, K., Manuelpillai, D., Raut, B., Deletic, A., & Bach, P. M. (2019). Evaluating the reliability of stormwater treatment systems under various future climate conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 568, 57–66.