Abstract
Abstract. This paper describes a comprehensive and unique open-access data set for research within hydrological and hydraulic modelling of urban drainage systems. The data come from a mainly combined urban drainage system covering a 1.7 km2 area in the town of Bellinge, a suburb of the city of Odense, Denmark. The data set consists of up to 10 years of observations (2010–2020) from 13 level meters, 1 flow meter, 1 position sensor and 4 power sensors in the system, along with rainfall data from three rain gauges and two weather radars (X- and C-band), and meteorological data from a nearby weather station. The system characteristics of the urban drainage system (information about manholes, pipes, etc.) can be found in the data set along with characteristics of the surface area (contour lines, surface description, etc.). Two detailed hydrodynamic, distributed urban drainage models of the system are provided in the software systems MIKE URBAN and EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). The two simulation models generally show similar responses, but systematic differences are present since the models have not been calibrated. With this data set we provide a useful case that will enable independent testing and replication of results from future scientific developments and innovation within urban hydrology and urban drainage systems research. The data set can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.11583/DTU.c.5029124 (Pedersen et al., 2021a).
Highlights
Scientific progress related to urban hydrology and urban drainage systems research is slowed down by a lack of open data within the field, and the need for open data and transparency is increasingly being emphasised (Moy de Vitry et al, 2019; Vonach et al, 2019)
This paper describes a comprehensive and unique open-access data set for research within hydrological and hydraulic modelling of urban drainage systems
The two simulation models generally show similar responses, but systematic differences are present since the models have not been calibrated. With this data set we provide a useful case that will enable independent testing and replication of results from future scientific developments and innovation within urban hydrology and urban drainage systems research
Summary
Scientific progress related to urban hydrology and urban drainage systems research is slowed down by a lack of open data within the field, and the need for open data and transparency is increasingly being emphasised (Moy de Vitry et al, 2019; Vonach et al, 2019). Within the research field of real-time control (RTC) of urban drainage systems, the lack of open data sets has led to the development of synthetic test models, such as the Astlingen network (Schütze et al, 2017; Sun et al, 2020) and the Pystorms networks (Rimer et al, 2019) While such synthetic networks are useful due to their stringent focus on the most relevant processes for the purpose at hand, the usage of actual networks to benchmark the performance of RTC methods would help the end-users in the utility companies to decide which methods to implement for their specific system.
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