Relationships between rainfall and Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) occurrences

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 523, Issue , 2015, Pages 602-609

  Mailhot, A ^a   Talbot, G ^a   Lavallee B ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b Ministere du Developpement durable de l'Environnement et des Parcs   (Canada)

Author keywords

Combined sewer overflow; Contingency tables; Daily rainfall; Odds ratio skill Score; Overflow structure; Threshold

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; RAIN; SEWERS;

COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DAILY RAINFALL; SKILL SCORE; THRESHOLD;

COMBINED SEWERS;

DATA SET; FORECASTING METHOD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; RAINFALL; SEWER NETWORK; THRESHOLD;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84922998344     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.01.063     Document Type: Article

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