A new method, with application, for analysis of the impacts on flood risk of widely distributed enhanced hillslope storage
A new method, with application, for analysis of the impacts on flood risk of widely distributed enhanced hillslope storage
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广泛分布的强化山坡蓄水对洪水风险影响分析的新方法及应用
DOI:
10.5194/hess-22-2589-2018
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
6.3
通讯作者:
R. Lamb
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作者:
Peter Metcalfe;K. Beven;B. Hankin;R. Lamb
Abstract. Enhanced hillslope storage is utilised in “natural” flood management in
order to retain overland storm run-off and to reduce connectivity between fast
surface flow pathways and the channel. Examples include excavated ponds,
deepened or bunded accumulation areas, and gullies and ephemeral channels
blocked with wooden barriers or debris dams. The performance of large, distributed networks of such measures is poorly
understood. Extensive schemes can potentially retain large quantities of
run-off, but there are indications that much of their effectiveness can be
attributed to desynchronisation of sub-catchment flood waves.
Inappropriately sited measures may therefore increase, rather than mitigate,
flood risk. Fully distributed hydrodynamic models have been applied in
limited studies but introduce significant computational complexity. The
longer run times of such models also restrict their use for uncertainty
estimation or evaluation of the many potential configurations and storm
sequences that may influence the timings and magnitudes of flood waves. Here a simplified overland flow-routing module and semi-distributed
representation of enhanced hillslope storage is developed. It is applied to
the headwaters of a large rural catchment in Cumbria, UK, where the use of
an extensive network of storage features is proposed as a flood mitigation
strategy. The models were run within a Monte Carlo framework against data
for a 2-month period of extreme flood events that caused significant
damage in areas downstream. Acceptable realisations and likelihood
weightings were identified using the GLUE uncertainty estimation framework.
Behavioural realisations were rerun against the catchment model modified
with the addition of the hillslope storage. Three different drainage rate
parameters were applied across the network of hillslope storage. The study demonstrates that schemes comprising widely distributed hillslope
storage can be modelled effectively within such a reduced complexity
framework. It shows the importance of drainage rates from storage features
while operating through a sequence of events. We discuss limitations in the
simplified representation of overland flow-routing and representation and
storage, and how this could be improved using experimental evidence. We
suggest ways in which features could be grouped more strategically and thus
improve the performance of such schemes.