HYDROLOGIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGE IN SMALL MARYLAND WATERSHEDS

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dc.contributor.advisorBrubaker, Kaye Len_US
dc.contributor.authorMilligan, Austinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-15T05:30:50Z
dc.date.available2021-07-15T05:30:50Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThe impact of a changing climate combined with a more urbanized world signals a change in watershed behavior. This work aims to quantify the change in watershed runoff due to both climate change and land use shifts by modeling changes in peak flow rates, duration of storm runoff, and the time to peak flow in response to storms of differing frequencies. GISHydro and WinTR-20 were used in tandem to model the effects of urbanization and increased rainfall predicted at mid-21st century on six small watersheds in two geographic regions of Maryland. Results indicate that climate change is the more influential factor in altering runoff for events from 50% to 1% annual exceedance probability; however, land use change is most prominently felt during the more common storms. Furthermore, a non-linear relationship is observed between the effects of impervious surface and rainfall on the runoff potential of the watersheds.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/5xe4-e3is
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27504
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEnvironmental engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCivil engineeringen_US
dc.titleHYDROLOGIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND LAND USE CHANGE IN SMALL MARYLAND WATERSHEDSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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