Saturation-excess and infiltration-excess runoff on green roofs

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 327-336

  Yang, Wen Yu ^a   Li, Dan ^b   Sun, Ting ^a   Ni, Guang Heng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green roof; HYDRUS 1D; Infiltration excess; Rainfall runoff relationship; Rainwater retention; Saturation excess

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; RAIN; ROOFS; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

GREEN ROOF; HYDRUS-1D; INFILTRATION EXCESS; RAINFALL-RUNOFF RELATIONSHIP; RAINWATER RETENTION; SATURATION EXCESS;

INFILTRATION;

FLOODING; INFILTRATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; ROOF; SATURATION; URBAN AREA; WATER BUDGET; WATER RETENTION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84911164062     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.10.023     Document Type: Article

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