Glossary 📖
- Absolute Date and Time 📅: InfoWorks ICM simulations can run using absolute or relative dates and times...
- Acute impacts ⚡: Caused by high concentrations of pollutants for a short duration...
- Advection (solution) 🌊: Solution to movement of sediments/ pollutants in the flow...
- Aesthetic Pollution 🎨: Usually refers to solid material washed into river banks...
- Air entrainment 🌀: The process by which bubbles or pockets of air are caught...
- Anaerobic process 🚫💨: A process carried out in the absence of air...
- Ancillary structure 🏗️: A structure within a sewerage system which is not a sewer...
- ANTEC 📊: Data which defines whether the depression storage on the catchment surface is full...
- Antecedent conditions ☔: The wetness of a catchment before a rainfall event...
- Areal reduction factor 📉: A factor applied to synthetic point rainfall depths...
- Asymptotic ➡️: A line is asymptotic to a particular curve if it continually approaches...
- Biochemical Oxygen Demand 🌱💧: Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) is usually expressed...
- Boundary Shear Stress 🌊🛑: The retarding force (usually friction)...
- CARP 🐠: Comparative Acceptable River Pollution (procedure)...
- Catchment Runoff Data 💧: Describes the initial state of subcatchment surfaces...
- Catchment Sediment Data 🏞️: Describes the initial mass of sediment on subcatchment surfaces...
- Chronic Impacts 🔄: Caused by prolonged exposure to low pollution concentration...
- Chronomids 🐛: Midge larvae very common in moderately polluted water in the UK...
- Chemical Oxygen Demand ⚗️: Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) is a measure...
- Combined Network 🌧️🚽: A sewer network which collects rainfall...
- Combined Sewerage System 🚿🌧️: A sewerage system in which both foul sewage and storm water are carried...
- Consented Discharges ✅: Discharges meeting the conditions imposed...
- Consolidated Sediment 🌊: Sediment which has become impressed...
- Continuation Pipe 🚽: Usually refers to the pipe at a tank which continues...
- Contributing Area 🏞️: The area of the catchment which contributes...
- Critical Dilution Factor 💧: The dilution factor of a receiving water...
- CSO 🌧️🚽: Combined Sewer Overflow...
- CSV 📄: CSV is one implementation of a delimited text file...
- CSV files 📁: Comma Separated Variable file format...
- Current Active Window 💻: The current Active Window in any Microsoft Windows application...
- Data Flags 🚩: You can apply user-defined data flags...
- Database Data 💾: The data stored in a standalone, workgroup, or cloud database...
- Database Items 📦: Any item stored in the Database...
- Depression Storage 🌧️: The depth of water retained on the ground surface...
- Design storm 🌩️: A rainfall event of a given duration...
- Detention Tanks 🛢️: Tanks constructed in a sewerage system...
- Digital Converters 🔌: Equipment which translates data...
- Dilution and Fate Model 💧: A model which accounts for the various factors...
- Dilution Model 💧: Models the mixing and dispersion of a contaminant...
- Diurnal Variation 🔄: (Usually related to dry weather flow) Represents the variation...
- Domestic (foul) Inflow 🏠💧: Waste water from residential areas...
- Dummy Pipe 🚫🚽: A non-existent pipe included in the model...
- Efficiency Factor 💹: Factor introduced to predict the behavior...
- Ensemble 🌐: A population of simulations...
- Environmental Quality Objective (EQO) 🌍: Water quality objectives...
- Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) 🌱💧: A defined maximum admissible concentration...
- Eschericha Coli 🦠: A bacterium present in huge numbers...
- Eutrophication 🌊🌱: Process of nutrient build-up...
- Extreme Event ⛈️: Single occurrence of an event...
- Faecal Contamination 💩💧: Water sample which has been exposed...
- First foul flush 🌧️🚽: The initial associated discharge of active sediments...
- Flow Regime 🌊: The typical variation of discharge of a waterway...
- Flow Survey (sewers) 🚽📊: Systemized analysis of the hydraulic behavior...
- Foul Water 💧🚽: Domestic or industrial waste water...
- Free-space Propagation (telemetry) 📡: The transfer of data using the air...
- Full run 🔄: A run that performs the full range of simulations...
- Gross Solids 🌊: Solids either floating, suspended...
- Gully Pot 🚽: A structure to permit the entry of surface runoff...
- GUID 🆔: A Globally Unique IDentifier...
- Herbicides 🌱☠️: Chemicals designed to kill plants...
- Hydraulic Capacity 🌊: The maximum flow a pipe...
- Hydraulic Performance 🚽📊: The flow conditions in a system...
- Hydrogen Sulphide 💨: Poisonous and highly corrosive gas...
- Hydrograph 📉: A series of values in numerical...
- Hyetograph 🌧️📊: A series of rainfall intensity values...
- ICA 🎛️: Describing the subject of Instrumentation, Control, and Automation...
- Impermeable surface 🛑💧: Surface which resists the infiltration of water...
- Industrial Discharge 🏭💧: Outflow from an industrial unit...
- Infiltration flows (to sewers) 🌧️🚽: Groundwater which enters sewers...
- Infiltration flows (to the ground) 🌧️🌱: Rainfall which soaks into the ground...
- Inflow Pollutograph 💧📊: A series of values expressing the variation...
- Intensity/Duration/Frequency Relationship 🌧️🔄: A table or graph showing the way...
- Intercepting sewers 🚽: A sewer collecting discharge...
- Intrinsically Safe (IS) 🛡️: BS standard which, for sewers...
- Land Use 🌱🏠: The land use defines a set of typical values...
- Magnitude/Duration/Frequency 🌧️🔄: See Intensity/Duration/Frequency...
- Micro-biological 🦠: The biological processes concerning micro-organisms...
- Minor timestep ⏲️: Timestep inserted between run timesteps...
- Model Group 💾📊: The model data and results...
- Multiplexer-analog 🎛️: Instrumentation unit which sends/receives signals...
- Native Units 📏: The default units used within InfoWorks ICM...
- Non-visual object 🚫👁️: A database object which is associated...
- Normalized System Inflow 🔄💧: The total inflow to a system...
- Odour 🦠💨: Offensive smell resulting from decay...
- Overland Flow 🌊🌱: The proportion of rainfall which flows...
- Parshall Flume 🚽: A device for measuring flow...
- Pathogenic 🦠☠️: Organisms which can cause disease...
- Permeable Surface 💧🌱: A surface which allows the infiltration...
- Pesticides ☠️: Chemicals designed to kill pests...
- PISCES 🐠📊: Program for Intelligent Sewer Control and Evaluation...
- Point Source 📍💧: A specific location from which pollutants...
- Pollution Load 🌊☠️: The total mass of pollutants...
- Precipitation 🌧️: Rain, snow, sleet, or hail...
- Pre-processing 🔄📊: Stage in InfoWorks ICM run cycle...
- Primary Sedimentation 🌊: The settling out of solid material...
- Process Simulator 🔄💧: The part of the InfoWorks ICM software...
- Prolific growth 🌱: Rapid growth of micro-organisms...
- Propagation 🔄: The transmission of a wave...
- Proximity to sea 🌊: How close a catchment is to the sea...
- Pump Head 🚿: The vertical distance between the centerline...
- Rain Gauge 🌧️📏: An instrument for collecting and measuring...
- Rainfall Intensity 🌧️📊: The depth of rain falling in a given time...
- Rainfall Runoff Model 🌧️💧: A mathematical representation...
- Real Time Control (RTC) ⏲️🔄: The control of elements in real time...
- Receiving Waters 🌊📊: A body of water into which pollutants...
- Redox Potential 🌱🔌: The potential of a solution...
- Reference Node 📍: Used as a reference point...
- Relative Date and Time ⏲️: InfoWorks ICM simulations can run using relative...
- Reproduction factor 🔄: The number of times a single organism...
- Reverse Mode 🔄: A mode where the direction of flow...
- Rising Main 🚿: A pressurized pipeline...
- RTK Unit 🌍📍: Real-Time Kinematic, a satellite navigation system...
- Runoff Path 🌊🌱: The route which overland flow takes...
- SAG 🌍📉: Sediment Aggregation...
- Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO) 🚽🌊: Overflows from sanitary sewers...
- Sediment Traps 🌊🔒: Devices designed to catch sediment...
- Sewerage Area 🚽🏞️: A clearly defined area...
- Sluice Gates 🌊🚪: A movable gate used to control water flow...
- Solids Flux 🌊📊: The mass of solid material...
- Solution Advection 🌊➡️: The process where solutes move with the flow...
- Spot Sample 📍🔍: A sample taken at a specific time and place...
- Standard Deviation 📊: A measure of how much the values...
- Storage tanks 🛢️: Large tanks used to store water...
- Storm Sewer 🌧️🚽: A sewer designed to carry storm water...
- Subcatchment 🏞️📉: A clearly defined area...
- Surface Roughness 🌱📏: The roughness of a surface...
- Surface Water Sewer 🌧️🚽: A sewer which only carries rainfall...
- SWMM 🌧️💻: Storm Water Management Model...
- Synthetic Rainfall 🌧️🔄: Computer-generated rainfall data...
- Telemetry 📡: The transmission of data...
- Time of Concentration ⏲️📊: The time taken for rainfall to flow...
- Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) 💧📊: The maximum amount of a pollutant...
- Transducer 🎛️: A device which converts one form of energy...
- Treatment Work 🌊🏭: A plant where waste water...
- Turbidity 🌊🌀: A measure of the cloudiness...
- TYPHOON 🌀📊: Typhoon Hydrodynamic Model...
- Unit Hydrograph 🌊📏: A hydrograph resulting from a unit depth...
- Urban Pollution Management (UPM) 🌆☠️: Management of pollutants in urban areas...
- Water Framework Directive (WFD) 🌊📜: EU directive aiming to protect water quality...
- Water Quality Model 🌊📊: Mathematical representation...
- Weir 🌊🚪: A barrier across a river...
