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An urban drainage scheme for large-scale flood models

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JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
卷 627, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130410

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Urban drainage; Urban flood; Flood model; Flood exposure; Extreme events; Rio de Janeiro

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As flood modeling spatial resolutions get finer, it becomes necessary to account for urban drainage. This study evaluates an urban drainage scheme for large-scale flood models, showing that representing a drainage network decreases urban flooding and lowers flood exposure risk. The simulations also reveal that racial minority and low-income populations are disproportionately affected by extreme floods in the city.
As flood modeling spatial resolutions get finer, physical processes normally neglected, such as urban drainage, must be accounted for. Here, we describe and evaluate an urban drainage scheme for large-scale flood models. The parameterization accounts for urban imperviousness, and water flow over streets and through a prescribed urban drainage network. A parameter sensitivity analysis is performed during three major extreme floods over Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, at -200 m spatial resolution. Results show that, compared to a hypothetical case without urban drainage, representing a drainage network decreases urban flooding during selected extreme events across Rio de Janeiro by 31-53 %. Such a decrease is caused by an underground water storage of up to 2.5 billion m(3) across the city during flood peaks. Underground water storage and transport smooth out and delay peak flows by a few hours over major rivers and channels draining the city. Simulations also indicate that the number of residents exposed to flooding drops by 60-80 %, from -5 million to 1-2 million, when an urban drainage system is considered during extreme events. Similar proportions are found for social infrastructure (i.e., schools and hospitals) exposed to flooding. Results reveal that racial minority and low-income populations could disproportionally be exposed to extreme floodings across the city. We conclude that representing urban drainage has a substantial impact on flood exposure and should be accounted for in fine resolution modeling. The proposed scheme is particularly useful in poorly monitored cities and where extreme floods are a frequent hazard yet to be tackled.

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