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Impacts Of Climate Change And Urban Growth On The Streamflow Characteristics Of The Milwaukee River (Wisconsin, Usa), Woonsup Choi, Feng Pen, Changshan Wu
Impacts Of Climate Change And Urban Growth On The Streamflow Characteristics Of The Milwaukee River (Wisconsin, Usa), Woonsup Choi, Feng Pen, Changshan Wu
Geography Faculty Articles
Hydrological impact studies of climate change increasingly take land use changes into account. However, the Midwestern USA is still understudied in this context. This study investigated the impacts of potential climate change and urban growth on the streamflow characteristics of the Milwaukee River located in southeastern Wisconsin. The Hydrological Simulation Program-Fortran (HSPF) was set up for the catchment and calibrated against observed streamflow data. The calibrated HSPF model was run with a series of climate and urban growth scenarios generated from nine global climate models (GCMs) and a land use simulation model, respectively. The outcomes from the GCMs, statistically downscaled …
Urbanization And Rainfall-Runoff Relationships In The Milwaukee River Basin, Woonsup Choi, Kathryn Nauth, Jinmu Choi, Stefan Becker
Urbanization And Rainfall-Runoff Relationships In The Milwaukee River Basin, Woonsup Choi, Kathryn Nauth, Jinmu Choi, Stefan Becker
Geography Faculty Articles
To understand the changing rainfall-runoff relationship, the study examined climate and streamflow data in the Milwaukee River Basin in southeastern Wisconsin, of which four catchments with different degrees of urbanization were selected for analysis. This study analyzed temperature, precipitation, and streamflow data with a range of statistical methods, including the Mann-Kendall test, double-mass technique, and quantile regression. Runoff ratios and extreme flow indices were higher in more urbanized catchments. Catchments with long-term data (>40 years) showed significantly increasing runoff ratios and slopes in double mass curves. Overall, there are signs of changes in the rainfall-runoff relationship, but how much …