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Matthew G. Montgomery, Miles B. Yaw and John S. Schwartz
Probabilistic risk methods are becoming increasingly accepted as a means of carrying out risk-informed decision making regarding the design and operation policy of structures such as dams. Probabilistic risk calculations require the quantification of epi...
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Gholamreza Eslamifar, Hamid Balali and Alexander Fernald
Enhancing the comprehension of alterations in land use holds paramount importance for water management in semi-arid regions due to its effects on hydrology and agricultural economics. Allowing agricultural land to lie fallow has emerged as a technique to...
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Roger Glick, Jaehak Jeong, Raghavan Srinivasan, Jeffrey G. Arnold and Younggu Her
Computer simulation models are a useful tool in planning, enabling reliable yet affordable what-if scenario analysis. Many simulation models have been proposed and used for urban planning and management. Still, there are a few modeling options available ...
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Markus C. Casper, Zoé Salm, Oliver Gronz, Christopher Hutengs, Hadis Mohajerani and Michael Vohland
The land-use-specific calibration of evapotranspiration parameters in hydrologic modeling is challenging due to the lack of appropriate reference data. We present a MODIS-based calibration approach of vegetation-related evaporation parameters for two mes...
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Xueying Zhang, Yue He, Lijun Tian, Hanxi Duan and Yifan Cao
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) and surrounding areas contain the largest number of glaciers outside the polar regions. The region affects downstream water supply and food security, thereby directly influencing one-third of the world?s population. The lakes in ...
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Jeremy Feinstein, Quentin Ploussard, Thomas Veselka and Eugene Yan
Methods for downstream river flow prediction can be categorized into physics-based and empirical approaches. Although based on well-studied physical relationships, physics-based models rely on numerous hydrologic variables characteristic of the specific ...
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Yuxuan Gao, Wei Xiong and Chenhao Wang
Dam operation is regarded as an effective way to increase water, food, and energy security for society. However, with the increasing water demand and frequent extreme droughts, numerous rivers worldwide go through periods of water scarcity and water ecos...
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T. Edwin Chow, Joyce Chien and Kimberly Meitzen
The primary objective of this study was to examine the quality of volunteered geographic information (VGI) data for flood mapping of Hurricane Harvey. As a crowdsourcing platform, the U-Flood project mapped flooded streets in the Houston metro area. This...
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Ying Ouyang, Yanbo Huang, Prem B. Parajuli, Yongshan Wan, Johnny M. Grace, Peter V. Caldwell and Carl Trettin
Sediment load in rivers is recognized as both a carrier and a potential source of contaminants. Sediment deposition significantly changes river flow and morphology, thereby affecting stream hydrology and aquatic life. We projected sediment load from the ...
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Zafeiria Theodosopoulou, Ioannis M. Kourtis, Vasilis Bellos, Konstantinos Apostolopoulos, Chryssy Potsiou and Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis
Post-disaster flood risk assessment is extremely difficult owing to the great uncertainties involved in all parts of the assessment exercise, e.g., the uncertainty of hydrologic?hydraulic models and depth?damage curves. In the present study, a robust and...
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