Modelling green roof stormwater response for different soil depths

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 153, Issue , 2016, Pages 170-179

  Castiglia Feitosa, Renato ^a   Wilkinson, Sara ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Green roofs; Modelling; Stormwater run off

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; RAIN; RETROFITTING; ROOFS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); STORMS;

CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; DIFFERENT SOILS; EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOFS; GREEN ROOF; RAINFALL EVENT; ROOF STRUCTURES; SOIL HYDRAULICS; VARIABLY SATURATED;

SOILS;

BUILDING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDRAULICS; PEAK FLOW; RAINFALL; SHALLOW SOIL; SOFTWARE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TYPE; WATER FLOW;

AUCKLAND; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 84973300205     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.05.007     Document Type: Article

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