Quantifying the stormwater runoff volume reduction benefits of urban street tree canopy

WR Selbig, SP Loheide II, W Shuster… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Trees in the urban right-of-way areas have increasingly been considered part of a suite of
green infrastructure practices used to manage stormwater runoff. A paired-catchment …

Hydrologic responses of single land use urban and forested watersheds and their implications to improving urban drainage design

IM Simpson, RJ Winston, RA Tirpak, JD Dorsey… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The need for resilient stormwater infrastructure is increasingly critical as urbanization and
climate change continue to threaten water resources. Engineers and practitioners require …

The impact of the spatiotemporal structure of rainfall on flood frequency over a small urban watershed: An approach coupling stochastic storm transposition and …

Z Zhou, JA Smith, ML Baeck, DB Wright… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
The role of rainfall space–time structure, as well as its complex interactions with land surface
properties, in flood response remains an open research issue. This study contributes to this …

Effects of design and climate on bioretention effectiveness for watershed-scale hydrologic benefits

RW Lammers, L Miller, BP Bledsoe - Journal of Sustainable Water in …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Bioretention areas are a common form of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). There is
significant research on the performance of individual bioretention cells, but the watershed …

Balancing upland green infrastructure and stream restoration to recover urban stormwater and nitrate load retention

R Zhang, LE Band, PM Groffman - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban watersheds have experienced ecosystem degradation due to land cover change from
vegetation to impervious areas. This transformation results in increased stormwater runoff …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the influence of green stormwater infrastructure implemented for combined sewer overflow control on urban streamflows

N Kwak, V Smith, KD Good - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) have been an increasing challenge as urbanization and
climate change have induced more frequent overflows, impairing stream health. In response …

Flood retention lakes in a rural‐urban catchment: Climate‐dominated and configuration‐affected performances

H Yan, M Guan, Y Kong - Water Resources Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flood retention lakes (RLs) are widely employed in rural‐urban catchments with low impacts
on the natural environment. However, insights are lacking regarding the control of climate …

Event scale hydrograph responses highlight impacts of widespread stream burial and urban infrastructure failures

R Forgrave, EM Elliott, DJ Bain - Hydrological Processes, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fast hydrologic responses to storms in urban areas are often attributed to high percentages
of impervious surfaces; however, another factor affecting urban storm response is channel …

Impacts of Urbanization on the Riverine Flooding in Major Cities Across the Eastern United States

R Amorim, G Villarini - Hydrological Processes, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The increase in the societal and economic impacts of flooding across the eastern United
States has brought attention to the potential link between long‐term increases in urban …

Optimizing stormwater management to facilitate urban stream restoration via a science-based approach

MS Wooten, RJ Hawley, C Rust - Freshwater Science, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Stormwater management affecting an urban stream is most effective when managers design
programs tailored to the physical characteristics of the stream and the political and …