Ole Mark

Ole Mark
Krüger A/S · Urban Drainage

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January 2000 - April 2003
Asian Institute of Technology
Position
  • Associate Proff. & Program Manger
February 1989 - January 2000
DHI Group
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  • Various

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Publications (106)
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Wastewater‐based epidemiology (WBE) has been proven to be a useful tool in monitoring public health‐related issues such as drug use, and disease. By sampling wastewater and applying WBE methods, wastewater‐detectable pathogens such as viruses can be cheaply and effectively monitored, tracking people who might be missed or under‐represented in tradi...
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Globally, recent intensification of human activities for urbanization and climate change has triggered significant growth in urban runoff, responsible for increased frequency and magnitude of urban flooding and drainage system failure. Detention tanks are one of the efficient stormwater control measures extensively adopted as temporary storage of f...
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An improved understanding of bioretention cell (BC) design configuration at both the unit scale and catchment scale is necessary for critical insight into dynamical behaviors of design parameters, which resultantly guides and improves the effectiveness and efficiency of a BC. A comprehensive sensitivity analysis (SA) of BC design parameters was con...
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There has been a recent increase of interest in sewer network water quality, both for pollutants and wastewater epidemiology. Of particular interest is the ability to perform cost-effective small-scale monitoring to understand the sewer network and perform source localization (the process of identifying the sources of materials of interest within t...
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Green-grey infrastructures implementation for addressing urban flood damages and urban drainage system’ (UDS) resilience (respectively) needs comprehensive evaluation under various planning and design influencing factors. In this paper, a multi-objective decision-making framework is developed for the optimization of green-grey infrastructures to un...
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Effectiveness of a bioretention cell (BC) in mitigating stormwater peak flow load to an urban drainage system is highly dependent on the design configuration and retrofitting scale. The selection of appropriate BC design parameters has always been critical to achieving its maximum benefits. The BC modeling in the stormwater management model (SWMM)...
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Bioretention cell (BC) design variation significantly changes its hydrological dynamics at unit-scale leading to major changes in its target design goals when designed unit replicated at the catchment-scale. Improved understanding of the behaviors of BC design parameters under different rainfall conditions is critical for effective implementation o...
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Sinks configure the surface networks for overland flow processes representations during 1D hydrodynamic modelling. The excessive number of sinks detected from high-resolution DEMs can boost 1D computational costs significantly. To pursue optimal sink numbers and their optimal spatial distribution, a Volume Ratio Sink Screening (VRSS) method was dev...
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Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of low impact development (LID) in preventing urban flooding in urban catchments. Majority of the past research focuses on the overall effects of LID on urban flood reduction in various configurations. However, how urban drainage system (UDS) performance changes at spatial scale under LID effective...
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Manholes in combined sewers may become surcharged during storm events, resulting in complex mixing conditions. Although manhole hydrodynamics are reasonably well understood, predicting mixing across a surcharged manhole remains a challenge. An analytical compartmental mixing model for manholes, based on jet theory, has been further developed and ap...
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Globally, smart meters measuring the water consumption with a high temporal resolution at consumers' households are deployed at an increasing rate. In addition to their use for billing or leak detection purposes, smart meters may provide detailed knowledge of the wastewater inflow to the sewer systems in space and time and open up new types of syst...
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The accuracy of two-dimensional hydrodynamic models (2D models) is improved when high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are used. However, the entailed high spatial discretisation results in excessive computational expenses, thus prohibiting their implementation in real-time forecasting especially at a large scale. This paper presents a su...
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Accurate model-based forecasts (discharge and water level) are considered significant for efficient planning and management of urban drainage systems. These model-based predictions can be improved by assimilating system measurements in physically based, distributed, 1D hydrodynamic urban drainage models. In the present research, a combined filterin...
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Combined sewer overflows (CSO) of mixed stormwater and wastewater pollute nearby receiving surface waters and pose a risk to the environment and human health. We use “integrated stormwater inflow control” to mitigate CSO by dynamically controlling the inflow of stormwater to the combined sewer system in real time, expanding the physical space of tr...
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The accuracy of two-dimensional urban flood models (2D models) is improved when high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) is used, but the entailed high spatial discretisation results in excessive computational expenses, thus prohibiting the use of 2D models in real-time forecasting at a large scale. This paper presents a sub-model approach t...
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The ecosystem services (ESS) approach seeks to identify and characterize links between ecosystems and human welfare. The DESSIN ESS evaluation framework is a novel methodology that has been developed to operationalize ecosystem service assessment, with a focus on urban freshwater settings. This paper describes an application of the framework to a r...
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Cities increasingly use real-time control of combined sewer systems and green infrastructure to decrease emissions to surface waters, and incorporate infrastructure into the urban landscape to reduce flooding from short, intense rainfall events called cloudbursts, which can cause flash flooding. Inspired by the ‘smart cities’ agenda, we propose the...
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The coincidence of two or more extreme events (precipitation and storm surge, for example) may lead to severe floods in coastal cities. It is important to develop powerful numerical tools for improved flooding predictions (especially over a wide range of spatial scales - metres to many kilometres) and assessment of joint influence of extreme events...
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Many cities face issues with rain induced flooding and combined sewer overflows, which can be addressed by using hydrodynamic models. These models are often simplified in a real-time setting to make them faster, and their performance can be improved by using data assimilation. In this study we use the Ensemble Kalman Filter to update a simplified m...
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Accurate monthly rainfall forecasting is essential for efficient watershed management, particularly for the current situation with high variation of rainfall due to global climate change. A variety of researchers attempted to develop more sophisticated models to enhance model capability to capture uncertainty due to high variation in rainfall both...
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To better understand the impacts of flooding such that authorities can plan for adapting measures to cope with future scenarios, we have developed a modified Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework to allow policy makers to evaluate strategies for improving flood resilience in cities. We showed that this framework proved an effect...
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Copenhagen has planned 300 cloudburst projects to make the city more resilient to extreme rain events. We investigate the potential of using cloudburst roads and retention spaces to convey and store stormwater during moderate sized rain events when downstream overflow from the sewer system is inevitable. This is done by installing devices to contro...
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We present a new framework for flexible testing of flood risk adaptation strategies in a variety of urban development and climate scenarios. This framework couples the 1D-2D hydrodynamic simulation package MIKE Flood with the agent-based urban development model DAnCE4Water and provides the possibility to systematically test various flood risk adapt...
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This paper presents a novel modeling analysis of a 40-year-long dataset to examine the impact of urbanization, with widespread stormwater infiltration, on groundwater levels and the water balance of a watershed. A dataset on the hydrologic impact of urbanization with extensive stormwater infiltration is not widely available, and is important becaus...
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A mathematical model has been developed to describe solute mixing in surcharged manholes using the submerged jet theory. The model has been applied for straight-through flow manholes and for manholes with a difference in the level of the inlet and outlet pipes. The model is applicable to dissolved substances, i.e. the model has not been validated f...
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Today, more than half of the world’s population is living in cities that are often centres of production, prosperity and development, but when it comes to handling water in urban areas, a number of challenges exist related to providing safe and efficient solutions to urban water issues. Challenges urban water managers face include flooding and extr...
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Water is a driver for development – notleast in fast-growing cities, where it is a challenge tosecure a safe drinking water supply, as well as efficientcollection, sustainable treatment, and possible reuse ofthe water. At the same time water is a barrier to sustai-nable development, as flooding and the damage it causescan seriously affect a country...
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In the last decade, real-time flood forecasting has become a more feasible approach to reducing the impacts of flooding in urban areas. Two key tools in this context are high resolution hydrodynamic modelling in combination with accurate hydrological forcing. In some cases, when it is not possible to produce such accurate flood forecasts based on h...
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The phenomenon of urban flooding due to rainfall exceeding the design capacity of drainage systems is a global problem and can have significant economic and social consequences. This is even more extreme in developing countries, where poor sanitation still causes a high infectious disease burden and mortality, especially during floods. At present,...
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Stormwater management using water sensitive urban design is expected to be part of future drainage systems. This paper aims to model the combination of local retention units, such as soakaways, with subsurface detention units. Soakaways are employed to reduce (by storage and infiltration) peak and volume stormwater runoff; however, large retention...
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Flooding can cause major disruptions in cities, and lead to significant impacts on people, the economy and on the environment. These impacts may be exacerbated by climate and socio-economic changes. Resilience thinking has become an important way for city planners and decision makers to manage flood risks. Despite different definitions of resilienc...
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Global flood management is a major issue for most cities which have to deal with worsening factors such as climate change and fast urban growth. Computer models have been used to model and understand urban flooding on a local scale in cities (25–50 km2). It has been practically impossible to model bigger cities in one go in sufficiently high resolu...
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Green roofs are being widely implemented for stormwater management and their impact on the urban hydrological cycle can be evaluated by incorporating them into urban drainage models. This paper presents a model of green roof long term and single event hydrological performance. The model includes surface and subsurface storage components representin...
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In many countries, poor sanitation still causes a high infectious disease burden and mortality, especially during floods [2]. The severe impact of flood water was, for instance, illustrated by the 6,921 cases of leptospirosis which were reported during and after the 2000 flood in Thailand, with a resulting 244 deaths. WHO is focusing on the problem...
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Quantitative microbial risk assessments (QMRAs) often lack data on water quality leading to great uncertainty in the QMRA because of the many assumptions. The quantity of waste water contamination was estimated and included in a QMRA on an extreme rain event leading to combined sewer overflow (CSO) to bathing water where an ironman competition late...
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This paper explores the potential for real-time urban flood forecasting based on literature and the results from an online worldwide survey with 176 participants. The survey investigated the use of data in urban flood management as well as the perceived challenges in data acquisition and its principal constraints in urban flood modelling. It was or...
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Global flood management is a major issue for most cities which have to deal with worsening factors such as climate change and fast urban growth. Computer models have been used to model and understand urban flooding on a local scale in cities (25–50 km2). It has been practically impossible to model bigger cities in one go in sufficiently high resolu...
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This paper presents a new and simplified modeling concept for soakaway infiltration in the presence of a shallow groundwater table, including representation of the local groundwater mound and its effects on the infiltration rate. The soil moisture retention curve is used to represent the influence of the mound on infiltration rates. The model is in...
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All urban drainage networks are designed to manage a maximum rainfall. This situation implies an accepted flood risk for any greater rainfall event. This risk is often underestimated as factors such as city growth and climate change are ignored. But even major structural changes cannot guarantee that urban drainage networks would cope with all futu...
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The phenomenon of urban flooding due to rainfall exceeding the design capacity of drainage systems is a global problem and can have significant economic and social consequences. The complex nature of quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models has facilitated a need to model and manage uncertainty. Thi...
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Les responsables et les professionnels des réseaux de drainage urbains sont confrontés aux incertitudes socio-économiques et climatiques alors que les réseaux de drainage doivent s'adapter à la pression de l'urbanisation croissante, à l'essor démographique et à la croissance économique. Une manière de gérer l'incertitude liée à cette dynamique est...
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The integration of scientific knowledge about possible climate change impacts on water resources has a direct implication on the way water policies are being implemented and evolving. This is particularly true regarding various technical steps embedded into the EU Water Framework Directive river basin management planning, such as risk characterisat...
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Highlights ► Soakaway impact on combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are evaluated with a new method. ► The method combines a coupled soakaway-sewer model with detailed spatial analysis. ► CSOs are reduced by 24% if groundwater constraints are included, otherwise 68%. ► The hydraulic coupling between soakaway and sewer contributes to CSO results. ► Grou...
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The increased load on urban stormwater systems due to climate change and growing urbanization can be partly alleviated by using soakaways and similar infiltration techniques. However, while soakaways are usually small-scale structures, most urban drainage network models operate on a larger spatial scale and the simulation of individual soakaways in...
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In the context of urban flood management, resilience is equal to resisting, recovering, reflecting and responding. The variety of causes of flooding and their consequences underpin the need for increased and internationally coordinated efforts to enhance technologies and policies for dealing with floods. This paper addresses this issue and presents...
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Two stormwater infiltration trenches were installed in 1993 in an area in central Copenhagen. The system was monitored continuously for almost three years after establishment, and a small reduction in performance over that time, possibly due to clogging, was noted. A new study was conducted in 2009 to see whether the reduction in performance has co...
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The potential devastating effects of urban flooding have given high importance to thorough understanding and management of water movement within catchments, and computer modelling tools have found widespread use for this purpose. The state-of-the-art in urban flood modelling is the use of a coupled 1D pipe and 2D overland flow model to simultaneous...
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Automatic methods for model calibration take advantage of the speed and power of computers, while being objective and relatively easy to implement. This paper presents the principles of automatic calibration applicable for urban rainfall-runoff modelling. The automatic scheme was developed by modifying the computer code of the MOUSE software packag...
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The application of hydroinformatics tools is restricted in developing countries due to the non-availability of the required data and information under local conditions. This paper presents the state of water quality of the city of Vientiane (capital of Lao PDR) before the extensive rectification of its drainage network and describes an approach and...
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Many cities in developing countries are typified by large areas of informal settlements. These often do not adhere to official planning guidelines, building regulations and construction standards and, as they are not officially recognised by local authorities, are rarely provided with adequate infrastructure and services. The provision of improved...
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Urban Authorities must take greater steps to address flood related problems and adopt an integrated approach to have an efficient stormwater management. One approach is to restrict construction in areas that are at high risk from flooding, such as on flood plains. It is necessary to consider alternative approaches for the control of developments on...
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This paper presents the general concepts and elements of integrated water resources management and the status of their adoption in Bangladesh at the national level. It describes the situation of the country with respect to the duality in the seasonal pattern of rainfall, the geographic position and the topography, which are the main constraints to...
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Modeling of water quality in sewers emerged during the late 1990s. The water quality and amount of water in sewers are dominant factors for designing wastewater treatment plants and for analyzing water quality impacts from sewer overflows. In addition, sewage under anaerobic conditions may cause corrosion of pipes, malodors, and pose health risks f...
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The construction and operation of urban drainage and stormwater systems have historically been driven by the objectives of maintaining public hygiene and preventing flooding. All over the world, cities have grown rapidly during the last century, and city authorities have built and continuously expanded storm and wastewater drainage facilities. Many...
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Flooding in urban areas is an inevitable problem in many cities, and it causes huge costs to the society in structural and nonstructural damage. The problems that arize from urban flooding range from minor ones such as water getting into the basement of a few houses, to major incidents, where large parts of cities are inundated for several days. Mo...
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Nowadays, many organizations collect hydrologic information for various purposes. But still, little information from the huge sources of data is made public in real time, and only a small fraction of the data is applied for real‐time decision making. Once the hydrologic data have become “historical” (the data are no longer applicable for real‐time...
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Urban flooding is an inevitable problem for many cities around the world. In the present paper, modelling approaches and principles for analyses of urban flooding are outlined. The paper shows how urban flooding can be simulated by one-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling incorporating the interaction between (i) the buried pipe system, (ii) the stre...
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O. Mark (corresponding author) DHI Water and Environment, Agern Allé 5, The application of hydroinformatics tools is restricted in developing countries due to the non-availability of the required data and information under local conditions. This paper presents the state of water quality of the city of Vientiane (capital of Lao PDR) before the exten...