Simulated interior floods and the flood experience in urban communities |
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Authors: | Lawrence C. Nkemdirim Kathleen J. Kendrick |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Geography, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada T2N 1N4, CA |
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Abstract: | The Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC-1) model was used to construct synthetic hydrographs for isolated interior urban floods. Flood peak and lag time were very well preserved in simulated flows. Total volume was not adequately expressed. Lag time varied inversely with both urban development and storm intensity. Peak discharge varied with storm intensity, but this variability was well defined only at very high urbanization levels. An 175% increase in storm intensity produced a change of about 15% in peak discharge. Claims for flood damage correlated well with estimates of peak flow and lag time combined. Other measures of flood experience also correlated with the two features. Within the range of storms utilized, urban development factors consistently outranked storm intensity as a determining factor in flood damage. |
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Keywords: | : Urban floods Flood experience Storm intensity Runoff coefficient Flood damage |
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