Journal of Hydrologic Engineering: Recent submissions
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Assessing 32-Day Hydrological Ensemble Forecasts in the Lake Champlain–Richelieu River Watershed
(ASCE, 10/1/2020 )This paper explored various configurations of the ensemble Kalman filter, the GR4J hydrological model, and the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) atmospheric model in order to maximize the skill of ensemble hydrological ... -
Assessing Interpolation Methods for Accuracy of Design Groundwater Levels for Civil Projects
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)This research compared natural neighbor interpolation with other interpolation methods commonly implemented in ArcGIS. It evaluated the relative performance of interpolation methods for various spatial data distributions, ... -
Bivariate Modeling of Hydroclimatic Variables in Humid Tropical Coastal Region Using Archimedean Copulas
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)The present study focuses on the dependence modeling of hydroclimatic variables such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) index, precipitation, tidal height, and groundwater level (GWL) in humid tropical coastal ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Runoff Variation: Case Study of the Upstream of Minjiang River, China
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on runoff variation has drawn considerable concern. In this study, a modified method of slope change ratio of accumulative quantity (modified SCRAQ) has been ... -
NRCS-CN Estimation from Onsite and Remote Sensing Data for Management of a Reservoir in the Eastern Pyrenees
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Onsite and Earth observation (EO) data are used for the calibration of the Natural Resources Conservation Service curve number (NRCS-CN) value in a hydrological simulation model. The model was developed for La Muga catchment ... -
Modeling Soil Moisture Redistribution and Infiltration Dynamics in Urban Drainage Systems
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Hydrological modeling has become a common approach for the design of stormwater management strategies, which increasingly rely on permeable and decentralized systems in order to mitigate the impacts of urbanization. In ... -
Multivariate Frequency Analysis of Annual Maxima Suspended Sediment Concentrations and Floods in the Jinsha River, China
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Streamflow plays a critical role in sediment transport. Traditional frequency analysis of annual maximal (AM) suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs) is usually based on univariate distribution of SSCs and may provide a ... -
Estimating Small Reservoir Evaporation Using Machine Learning Models for the Brazilian Savannah
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Small dams are infrastructures that regulate water supply for multiple users and play a key role in the agricultural development of the Brazilian savannah region known as the Cerrado. Evaporation is one of the major ... -
Variable Infiltration-Capacity Model Sensitivity, Parameter Uncertainty, and Data Augmentation for the Diyala River Basin in Iraq
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)To construct a valid model, hydrologists face challenges in determining sensitivity to the forcing data and uncertainty in model parameters. These require basin data and forcing data from different sources, which may be ... -
Screening and Optimizing the Sensitive Parameters of BTOPMC Model Based on UQ-PyL Software: Case Study of a Flood Event in the Fuji River Basin, Japan
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Block-wise use of TOPMODEL with the Muskingum–Cunge method (BTOPMC) is a physically based distributed hydrological model with five parameters that quantitatively reflect basin physical features, including soil type, ... -
Hydrologic Impacts of Surface Elevation and Spatial Resolution in Statistical Correction Approaches: Case Study of Flumendosa Basin, Italy
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)The role of surface elevation and spatial resolution in statistical correction approaches for temperature and precipitation forcing is investigated using four global climate model (GCM) and regional climate model (RCM) ... -
Predicting Sediment Load Using Stochastic Model and Rating Curves in a Hydrological Station
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The linking of onsite rates of sedimentation and river water quality represent a major research need within the field of erosion, and it is considered to be an important scale problem in sediment yield prediction. Understanding ... -
Experimental Investigation on Non-Darcy Flow Behavior of Granular Limestone with Different Porosity
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Statistics indicate that granular rock mass frequently acts as the flow channel and cause water inrush disasters under high water pressure in underground mining and tunnel engineering. The flow velocity of water inrush is ... -
Bias-Corrected CHIRP Satellite Rainfall for Water Level Simulation, Lake Ziway, Ethiopia
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Applicability of satellite rainfall products must be explored since rain gauge networks have limitations to provide adequate spatial coverage. In this study, Climate Hazards InfraRed Precipitation (CHIRP) satellite-only ... -
Understanding the Uncertainty of the Lim River Basin Response to Changing Climate
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)This study addresses how uncertainty propagates within climate models, statistical postprocessing tools, and the hydrological model, while taking into account the observed forcing and response of the hydrological system. ... -
ANFIS Modeling with ICA, BBO, TLBO, and IWO Optimization Algorithms and Sensitivity Analysis for Predicting Daily Reference Evapotranspiration
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important factor in water resource management. This research investigated the performance of four optimization algorithms to hybridize adaptive network-based fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) ... -
Identifying Runoff Production Mechanisms for Dam Safety Applications in the Colorado Front Range
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Hydrologic analyses are used in dam safety evaluations to determine the flow a dam must pass without failing. Many current guidelines model flood runoff solely by an infiltration-excess mechanism. Saturation-excess runoff ... -
Cascading Flow System for Urban Drainage Design
(ASCE, 2020)A stormwater drainage system is an important element in the urban infrastructure network. Under the conventional concept, an urban drainage system is designed to collect and pass the extreme storm event when sizing channels, ... -
Strategic Assessment of Dam Overtopping Reliability Using a Stochastic Process Approach
(ASCE, 2020)Earth-fill dam overtopping could pose significant threats to public safety if the necessary reliability assessments are not taken into consideration in the design process. Dam overtopping is caused by several hydrometeorological ... -
Data Synthesis Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition
(ASCE, 2020)The purpose of this paper is to introduce an effective way to solve the problem of nonstationary data generation. Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) algorithms have been widely used in data diagnosis. A new EMD-based data ...