Articles | Volume 370
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-370-29-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-370-29-2015
11 Jun 2015
 | 11 Jun 2015

Analysing the impact of urban areas patterns on the mean annual flow of 43 urbanized catchments

B. Salavati, L. Oudin, C. Furusho, and P. Ribstein

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We applied a hydrological model on 43 urban catchments in the United States to quantify the flow changes attributable to urbanization. Then, we tried to relate these flow changes to the changes of urban/impervious areas of the catchments. We argue that these spatial changes of urban areas can be more precisely characterized by landscape metrics. Our results showed that the catchments with larger impervious areas and larger mean patch areas are likely to have larger increase of runoff yield.