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Book Stochastic Hydrology and its Use in Water Resources Systems Simulation and Optimization

Download or read book Stochastic Hydrology and its Use in Water Resources Systems Simulation and Optimization written by J.B. Marco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic hydrology is an essential base of water resources systems analysis, due to the inherent randomness of the input, and consequently of the results. These results have to be incorporated in a decision-making process regarding the planning and management of water systems. It is through this application that stochastic hydrology finds its true meaning, otherwise it becomes merely an academic exercise. A set of well known specialists from both stochastic hydrology and water resources systems present a synthesis of the actual knowledge currently used in real-world planning and management. The book is intended for both practitioners and researchers who are willing to apply advanced approaches for incorporating hydrological randomness and uncertainty into the simulation and optimization of water resources systems. (abstract) Stochastic hydrology is a basic tool for water resources systems analysis, due to inherent randomness of the hydrologic cycle. This book contains actual techniques in use for water resources planning and management, incorporating randomness into the decision making process. Optimization and simulation, the classical systems-analysis technologies, are revisited under up-to-date statistical hydrology findings backed by real world applications.

Book Model Choice

Download or read book Model Choice written by W. Robert James and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances In Data based Approaches For Hydrologic Modeling And Forecasting

Download or read book Advances In Data based Approaches For Hydrologic Modeling And Forecasting written by Bellie Sivakumar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively accounts the advances in data-based approaches for hydrologic modeling and forecasting. Eight major and most popular approaches are selected, with a chapter for each — stochastic methods, parameter estimation techniques, scaling and fractal methods, remote sensing, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computing, wavelets, and nonlinear dynamics and chaos methods. These approaches are chosen to address a wide range of hydrologic system characteristics, processes, and the associated problems. Each of these eight approaches includes a comprehensive review of the fundamental concepts, their applications in hydrology, and a discussion on potential future directions.

Book Stochasticity  Nonlinearity and Forecasting of Streamflow Processes

Download or read book Stochasticity Nonlinearity and Forecasting of Streamflow Processes written by Wen Wang and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streamflow forecasting is of great importance to water resources management and flood defense. On the other hand, a better understanding of the streamflow process is fundamental for improving the skill of streamflow forecasting. The methods for forecasting streamflows may fall into two general classes: process-driven methods and data-driven methods. Equivalently, methods for understanding streamflow processes may also be broken into two categories: physically-based methods and mathematically-based methods. This thesis focuses on using mathematically-based methods to analyze stochasticity and nonlinearity of streamflow processes based on univariate historic streamflow records, and presents data-driven models that are also mainly based on univariate streamflow time series. Six streamflow processes of five rivers in different geological regions are investigated for stochasticity and nonlinearity at several characteristic timescales.

Book Chaos in Hydrology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bellie Sivakumar
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-11-16
  • ISBN : 9048125529
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Chaos in Hydrology written by Bellie Sivakumar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative book presents a comprehensive account of the essential roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in understanding, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic systems. This is done through a systematic presentation of: (1) information on the salient characteristics of hydrologic systems and on the existing theories for their modeling; (2) the fundamentals of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories, methods for chaos identification and prediction, and associated issues; (3) a review of the applications of chaos theory in hydrology; and (4) the scope and potential directions for the future. This book bridges the divide between the deterministic and the stochastic schools in hydrology, and is well suited as a textbook for hydrology courses.

Book Applied Modeling of Hydrologic Time Series

Download or read book Applied Modeling of Hydrologic Time Series written by Jose D. Salas and published by Water Resources Publication. This book was released on 1980 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Water Resources Abstracts

Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stochastic Hydrology of Daily Streamflows

Download or read book Stochastic Hydrology of Daily Streamflows written by G. Quesada Tabios Iii and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily streamflow simulation offers hydrologic planners the opportunity to study proposed and existing designs and operation schemes of water resource systems based on long sequences of synthetic streamflows. Stochastic hydrology deals with the development of stochastic models which simulate observed hydrologic processes and generate synthetic realizations of the processes. The synthetic sequences, on the other hand, are such that they must preserve important statistical characteristics of the observed process that are of relevance to water resource systems design and oprations. The major objective of this study is to test the applicability of some daily stochastic hydrology models to a typical Central Luzon Stream - the Talavera River in Nueva Ecija, Philippines. The stochastic models are a family of Gaussian model called autoregressive (AR) and mixed autoregressive-moving-average (ARMA) models, and a grouup of shot noise models. As an initial requirement for building the Gaussian models, the historical data are standardized and normalized in order that the residual flow variates are amenable for stramflow synthesis. The successive use of logarithmic and Wilson-Hilferty transformations are found suitable in rendering the flow residuals approximately normally distributed. The use of the parametric method of cyclic standardization is appropriate in removing the periodicities in the means and variances. Results from the time series analysis performed to the flow residuals virtually prescribed the adoption of a seasonal lag-one autoregressive model for generation of synthetic data. In using the shot noise models, seasonality is introduced by taking the harmonic representations of the raw daily statistics means, standard deviations, skewness coefficients and lag-one serial correlation coefficients. At the model-parameter estimation stage, only the simple shot noise model and the shot noise model with an added baseflow possess estimates consistent with parameter constraints, in contrast to the other candidate shot noise models. The three models fitted to the historical data yielded satisfactory reproduction of the daily means, standard deviations and serial correlation coefficients. Failure to reproduce the high skewness in the historical data is one of the model limitations noted. In general, this parper has demonstrated the applicability of stochastic hydrology models to the selected river. The seasonal AR(1) model, the simple shot noise model, and the shot noise model with baseflow are alternative models for daily stramflow synthesis, with unique advantages in each. Faithfulness in reproducing daily and monthly statistics differ among models; however, on an overall basis, all models show promise as daily streamflow synthesis models.

Book Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences

Download or read book Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences written by Wade H. Shafer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, and disseminated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis (CINDAS)* at Purdue University in 1957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955. Beginning with Volume 13, the printing and dis semination phases of the activity were transferred to University Microfilms/Xerox of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the though that such an arrangement would be more beneficial to the academic and general scientific and technical community. After five years of this joint undertaking we had concluded that it was in the interest of all concerned if the printing and distribution of the volumes were handled by an international publishing house to assure improved service and broader dissemi nation. Hence, starting with Volume 18, Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences has been disseminated on a worldwide basis by Plenum Publishing Corporation of New York, and in the same year the coverage was broadened to include Canadian universities. All back issues can also be ordered from Plenum. We have reported in Volume 37 (thesis year 1992) a total of 12,549 thesis titles from 25 Canadian and 153 United States universities. We are sure that this broader base for these titles reported will greatly enhance the value of this impor tant annual reference work. While Volume 37 reports theses submitted in 1992, on occasion, certain uni versities do report theses submitted in previous years but not reported at the time.

Book Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Earth Sciences

Download or read book Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Earth Sciences written by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the classic and cutting-edge quantitative methods for understanding environmental science research Based on the multifaceted 16-volume Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition, Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Earth Sciences offers guidance on the application of statistical methods for conducting research in these fields of study. With contributions from more than 100 leading experts in academia and industry, this volume combines key articles from the Encyclopedia with newly developed topics addressing some of the more critical issues, including pollution, droughts, and volcanic activity. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of cutting-edge methods for the acquisition and analysis of data across a wide range of subject areas, from geophysics, geology, and biogeography to meteorology, forestry, agriculture, animal science, and ornithology. The book features new and updated content on quantitative methods and their use in understanding the latest topics in social research, including: Drought Analysis and Forecasting Childhood Obesity Ranked Set Sampling Methodology for Environmental Data Species Richness and Shared Species Richness Geographic Information Systems Each contribution offers authoritative yet easily accessible coverage of statistical concepts. With updated references and discussion of emerging topics, readers are provided with the various statistical methods, techniques, strategies, and applications that are essential for tackling critical issues in environmental science research. Featuring a balance of classical and cutting-edge methodologies, Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Earth Sciences is an excellent resource for researchers, professionals, and students in the fields of sociology, psychology, philosophy, education, political science, and the related disciplines who would like to learn about the uses of statistics in gathering, reporting, and analyzing data.

Book NBS Special Publication

Download or read book NBS Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Water Resources Yield

    Book Details:
  • Author : T. A. McMahon
  • Publisher : Water Resources Publication
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781887201384
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Water Resources Yield written by T. A. McMahon and published by Water Resources Publication. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will benefit graduate students, university professors and consultants working in the area of surface water resources yield planning and assessment. It is very easy to understand and includes well-presented worked examples, which will facilitate the understanding of some of the complex storage-yield-performance techniques described in the book. This book is one of the most complete reference textbooks on water resources yield assessment and is a must for all those engaged in this subject.