Understanding the hydrological performance of green and grey roofs during winter in cold climate regions.

Autor: Maurin N; SINTEF Community, Infrastructure, S.P. Andersens veg 3, 7031 Trondheim, Norway. Electronic address: noelie.maurin@sintef.no., Abdalla EHM; SINTEF Community, Infrastructure, S.P. Andersens veg 3, 7031 Trondheim, Norway., Muthanna TM; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, S.P. Andersens veg 5, 7031 Trondheim, Norway., Sivertsen E; SINTEF Community, Infrastructure, S.P. Andersens veg 3, 7031 Trondheim, Norway.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2024 Oct 01; Vol. 945, pp. 174132. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174132
Abstrakt: Green and grey roofs have emerged as promising and sustainable measures for effectively managing stormwater in urban catchments. However, there is a gap in the literature in understanding and modelling the hydrological performance of these roofs during winter and snow-covered periods in cold climate regions. The present study attempted to address this gap by validating the use of a snow module in simulating the dynamics of snow accumulation and melting of green and grey roofs. Then, the validated model was used to identify and separate the different events that occur in winter (melt only, rainfall only, rain-on-snow) to assess the hydrological performance of six different configurations of green and grey roofs in Trondheim, Norway. The snow module accurately simulated snow accumulation and melting of green and grey roofs. The results showed that rain-on-snow events in winter have longer duration compared to other events including rainfall events in summer. Consequently, rain-on-snow events yield a higher amount of inflow to the roofs compared to rainfall events in summer, despite summer events having higher intensities. The retention and detention performances of green and grey roofs were found to be lowest for rain-on-snow events compared to other types of events, but still yielding significantly lower peak runoffs when compared to standard black roofs. The decrease in retention and detention performances in winter were attributed to the long duration of events, accumulation effect of snow, freezing of roof surface layers, and reduction of evapotranspiration. The study highlights the importance of considering winter conditions in the design of green and grey roofs in cold climates to enhance stormwater management.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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