Incorporating rainfall forecasts into a real-time streamflow forecasting system extends the forecast lead time. This study explores the problem systematically, exploring the uncertainties associated with QPFs and their hydrologic predictability. The focus is on scale dependence of the trade-off between the QPF time horizon, basin-scale, space-time scale of the QPF, and streamflow forecasting accuracy. To […]
As sensor networks control more within water environments, humans are releasing more control over decision-making skills to AI networks. the Water Ethics Web Engine (WE)2, an integrated and generalized web framework incorporates voting-based ethical and normative preferences into water resources decision support.
The Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND) model is used to analyze soil and predict flood inundation extents. HAND produced inundation maps comparable to advanced hydrodynamic models in practice in Iowa, and would be helpful in the absence of detailed hydrological data.
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Analysis of six years of micrometeorological records and data revealed strong interactions between relative humidity and evapotranspiration. Daily evapotranspiration estimates for cloudy regions need more information that relies solely on meteorological data, a primary focus of this study.
This study proposes a new deep recurrent neural network approach, Neural Runoff Model (NRM), which has been applied on 125 USGS streamflow gages in the State of Iowa for predicting the next 120 h due to the difficult nature of accurate streamflow forecasting. The proposed model outperforms the streamflow persistence, ridge regression and random forest […]
In this study, a web-based decision support tool (DST) was developed for hydrological multi-hazard analysis while employing gamification techniques to introduce a competitive element. The serious gaming environment provides functionalities for intuitive management, visualization, and analysis of geospatial, hydrological, and economic data to help stakeholders in the decision-making process regarding hydrological hazard preparedness and response. […]
Web-based distributed volunteer computing enables scientists to constitute platforms that can be used for computational tasks by using potentially millions of computers connected to the internet. The framework provides distribution and scaling capabilities for projects with user bases of thousands of volunteers. As a case study, we tested and evaluated the proposed framework with a […]
