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Access ebookHydrology and water resources management in a changing world reflects important challenges for both researchers and practitioners in the public and private sectors. This book features contributions from all sectors on the following themes: water in urban areas; groundwater; floods; climate services; hydrological processes and models; hydropower; water consumption; environmental impact and water quality.
In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.
Editorial: Hydrology and water resources management in a changing world
Kolbjørn Engeland and Knut Alfredsen
A dynamic river network method for the prediction of floods using a parsimonious rainfall-runoff model
Aynalem Tassachew Tsegaw, Thomas Skaugen, Knut Alfredsen and Tone M. Muthanna
Testing the applicability of physiographic classification methods toward improving precipitation phase determination in conceptual models
Laurie D. Grigg, James Feiccabrino and Frederick Sherenco
Precipitation phase uncertainty in cold region conceptual models resulting from meteorological forcing time-step intervals
James M. Feiccabrino
Can model-based data products replace gauge data as input to the hydrological model?
K. Sivasubramaniam, K. Alfredsen, T. Rinde and B. Sæther
Evaluation of global forcing datasets for hydropower inflow simulation in Nepal
Bikas Chandra Bhattarai, John Faulkner Burkhart, Lena M. Tallaksen, Chong-Yu Xu and Felix Nikolaus Matt
Improving hydropower inflow forecasts by assimilating snow data
Jan Magnusson, Geir Nævdal, Felix Matt, John F. Burkhart and Adam Winstral
Reproducing different types of changes in hydrological indicators with rainfall-runoff models
Carolina Massmann
Uncertainty of annual runoff projections in Lithuanian rivers under a future climate
V. Akstinas, D. Jakimavičius, D. Meilutytė -Lukauskienė , J. Kriaučiū nienė and D. Šarauskienė
Response of melt water and rainfall runoff to climate change and their roles in controlling streamflow changes of the two upstream basins over the Tibetan Plateau
Yueguan Zhang, Zhenchun Hao, Chong-Yu Xu and Xide Lai
How extreme can unit discharge become in steep Norwegian catchments?
Oddbjørn Bruland
Features and causes of catastrophic floods in the Nemunas River basin
Vytautas Akstinas, Diana Meilutytė -Lukauskienė, Jū ratė Kriaučiū nienė and Diana Šarauskienė
Risk assessment for areas prone to flooding and subsidence: a case study from Bergen, Western Norway
Guri Venvik, Ane Bang-Kittilsen and Floris C. Boogaard
Limitations in using runoff coefficients for green and gray roof design
Lotte Askeland Schärer, Jan Ove Busklein, Edvard Sivertsen and Tone M. Muthanna
Detection and attribution of flood responses to precipitation change and urbanization: a case study in Qinhuai River Basin, Southeast China
Guodong Bian, Jinkang Du, Mingming Song, Xueliang Zhang, Xingqi Zhang, Runjie Li, Sengyao Wu,
Zheng Duan and Chong-Yu Xu
Usage of SIMWE model to model urban overland flood: a case study in Oslo
Hong Li, Hongkai Gao, Yanlai Zhou, Chong-Yu Xu, Rengifo Z. Ortega M. and Nils Roar Sælthun
Increasing urbanization and changing climate are two critical stressors that are adversely affecting the biophysical environment of urban areas in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. The book discusses...
Today, multi-disciplinarity is the key to tackle challenges for the sustainable management of water resources, especially considering the increasing complexity in the water world. It is thus...
The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out...
Frontier technology in water treatment and pollutant removal is needed not only for maximizing water reuse but also for the rapid detection of contaminants in the recycled water. The UN announced...
The prevention of over-exploitation and the efficient use of natural resources are key goals of environmental managment in Industry.
Waste Gas Treatment for Resource Recovery...
The transition to low-carbon urban water utilities is an innovative idea, only embraced by a few forward thinking utilities currently. This roadmap is directed at urban water utility managers in...
Customer Experience Management for Water Utilities presents a practical framework for water utilities to become more focussed on their customers. This framework is founded on Service-...
Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice, brings together contributions to both the theory and practice of hydrology, including chapters on (amongst other topics) flood estimation methods and...