DataCurrent Reviews

DataCurrent Description

Real-time monitoring and alarming rain using rain gauges to alert staff or trigger operations staff about specific flooding or potential sewer overflow. The "Distributed Rainfall Modeling Technique" (DRMT) is a method of monitoring and analyzing rainfall amounts at different locations in order to determine the amount of rain in non-monitored locations. Combining rainfall gauge rainfall data with rainfall radar data can produce improved rainfall coverage maps. Analysis of recent rainfall records to develop rainfall intensity-duration curves for comparing with the area's design intensity-duration-frequency curves and define the return periods of observed events (forensic analysis). Develop new intensity-duration-frequency curves for designing drainage system infrastructure (sewers, channels, storage facilities). Data analysis and flow monitoring are used to determine rainfall versus stormwater runoff response curves in order to calibrate drainage system models.