# urb\_wash

Wash off is the process of erosion or solution of constituents from an impervious surface during a runoff event. The original default value for urb\_wash was calculated as 0.18 mm-1 by assuming that 13 mm of total runoff in one hour would wash off 90% of the initial surface load (Huber and Heaney, 1982). Using sediment transport theory, Sonnen (1980) estimated values for the wash-off coefficient ranging from 0.002-0.26 mm-1. Huber and Dickinson (1988) noted that values between 0.039 and 0.390 mm-1 for the wash-off coefficient give sediment concentrations in the range of most observed values. This variable is used to calibrate the model to observed data.

#### References

> Huber and Dickinson (1988)
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> Huber and Heaney (1982)
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> Sonnen (1980)