Green Roof for Urban Stormwater Management in Semi-Arid and Cold Climate
| dc.contributor.advisor | He, Jianxun | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Chu, Angus | |
| dc.contributor.author | Akther, Musa Shammi | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Achari, Gopal | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | van Duin, Bert | |
| dc.date | 2020-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-28T13:43:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-28T13:43:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09-23 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As a typical type of Low Impact Development technologies, green roofs have become widely used recently to restore the changes in stormwater runoff resulted from urbanization. To present, many studies have showcased their benefits in managing stormwater in particularly in the mild and temperate climatic zones. However, studies in other climatic zones (e.g., semi-arid and cold climate) are still lacking for their implementation with confidence. Additionally, acknowledging that green roofs might leach pollutants especially at their early ages, knowledge and understanding of this technology in this aspect is still very limited. Therefore, this dissertation aimed to filling these research gaps through conducting both the field observation and the laboratory experiment. The investigated field green roof situated in the City of Calgary, Alberta and the laboratory cells constructed using three media types leached several pollutant constituents including nutrients and conductivity during the study period; while the field green roof behaved as the sink of metals. Antecedent moisture condition and media type were identified to be the most influential factors on green roof hydrological and water quality performance, respectively. The degree of the chemical leaching declined exponentially with cumulative inflow initially, and then linearly later. The high explanatory ability of the cumulative inflow implied that the primary source of the pollutant constituents leached was the media of green roofs, namely the pollutants in media gradually leached out/washed off from green roofs. Based upon this notion, a semi-physically based leaching model was proposed. In this model, the maximum pollutant amount was determined according to its initial content in media, and its leaching was expressed as the wash-off function applied in stormwater runoff quality modeling. The model application further confirmed the primary source and the governing process of chemical leaching from green roofs. However, the modeling results also revealed the need to further improve the phosphorus leaching modeling, especially for the field green roof, as it appeared to be also affected by other chemical and biological processes besides the wash-off process. The identified differences between the laboratory and field observations called attention when translating knowledge from the laboratory investigation into real practice. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Akther, M. S. (2020). Green Roof for Urban Stormwater Management in Semi-Arid and Cold Climate (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38254 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112595 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Schulich School of Engineering | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Green Roof | en_US |
| dc.subject | Stormwater Management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Low Impact Development Practices | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Engineering--Civil | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Engineering--Environmental | en_US |
| dc.title | Green Roof for Urban Stormwater Management in Semi-Arid and Cold Climate | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Engineering – Civil | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
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