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Water balance and the behaviour of different paving surfaces
Author(s) -
Mansell Martin,
Rollet Fabien
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.2005.00015.x
Subject(s) - water balance , surface runoff , infiltration (hvac) , environmental science , balance (ability) , evaporation , hydrology (agriculture) , water content , material balance , moisture , environmental engineering , engineering , geotechnical engineering , process engineering , meteorology , geography , ecology , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , biology
The concept of water balance is frequently used to describe the main hydrological processes occurring in natural catchments. It can also be applied to urban catchments and in this paper the water balance principle is applied to small‐scale samples of various paving materials. In particular, the relative importance of runoff, evaporation and infiltration is studied. This paper discusses these processes and describes some experimental measurements of water balance on various paving materials and the moisture content distribution within the materials.