...) Two approaches are presented for using the UKCP09 weather generator (WG) to assess changes in extreme short-duration rainfall. The first provides change factors for design storms of varying duration and frequency, building on established hydrological techniques and with uncertainty estimation...

... detailed information and the capacity of stakeholders to manage long-term pathways. 16 10 2014 15 6 2014 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2015 floods & floodworks town & city planning weather Many delta cities are facing a higher flood risk in the near future due...

...-climatic regions of India. Based on the results, recommended alternative methods for estimating evapotranspiration when full weather data are not available are provided for 14 agro-climatic regions of India. Adjusted Hargreaves equation (Hargreaves and Allen, 2003) E T o ( Adj...

...James E. Tomlinson, MEng; Robert T. McSweeney, MEng, MSc, CSci, CWEM, MCIWEM, FRMetS; Geoff J. C. Darch, PhD, CSci, CWEM, MCIWEM, FRMetS; Christopher G. Kilsby, BSc, CMet, FRMets Wrapt (Weather generator rainfall analysis processing tool) is a software tool created as part of a UK Water Industry...

... hydrology & water resource mathematical modelling weather A drainage area a upstream catchment area draining across a unit length of contour line B river cross-section C constant ( =10) E evapotranspiration m decay factor...

... to May. Daily precipitation data from January 1979 to January 2000 were collected from weather stations that had consistent data for the aforementioned years. These weather stations include locations in Pol Chehr, Gamasiab River; Gore Baghestan, Qarasou River; Holilan, Saymareh River; Afarineh...

... resource weather This section describes the Eden catchment, the climate change scenarios used, the modelling undertaken and the results. The Eden catchment is located in northwest England and is bounded by the Lake District to the west and southwest, the Pennines to the southeast, east...

... estimation method and appropriate selection of modelling time step for sustainable implementation of WSUD in Australia. mathematical modelling pavement design weather Sustainable urban water management faces three major challenges: water demand management, improvement of water quality...

.... Illustration of the Lossie catchment flood forecasting model floods & floodworks public policy weather The Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act, which was given Royal Assent on 16 June 2009, provides a modern and sustainable framework for managing flood risk in Scotland. Under the Act...

...Dawn Lesley Harrison, MSc; Katie Norman, MPhys; Clive Pierce, MSc; Nicolas Gaussiat, PhD High-resolution precipitation estimates from weather radar and radar-based precipitation forecasts are key inputs to hydrological applications and, in particular, to flood forecasting models. This paper...

... and regional forecasting centres in bureau regional offices in each state and the Northern Territory. In the USA, the National Weather Service includes regional river forecast centres, made up of hydrologists and meteorologists. The North Central River Forecast Center, for example, is staffed by 19...

...Y. Chen, PhD, MSc; Q. Zou, MSc; J. Han, MSc; I. Cluckie, PhD, MSc Cinrad is the acronym describing China's next-generation weather radar that inherits the technology of the US national weather system Nexrad (WSR-88D) through a joint agreement between the two countries. More than 100 Cinrad systems...

...: (a) multi-sensor precipitation estimates (MPE) based on the stage III/IV algorithm developed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), national weather service (NWS) office of hydrology and NWS river forecast centres; and (b) quality-controlled NWS cooperative rain-gauge (QC_Coop...

...M. Dale, MSc(Eng), CMet, FRMetS, FCIWEM; R. Stidson, PhD, MRSC Weather radar data have been used in a project in Scotland to develop a methodology to improve real-time predictions of faecal coliform concentrations in bathing waters. Poor bathing water quality, characterised by high faecal coliform...

... the interaction between the rain-gauge and radar networks and to inform recommendations for improvements to the network and associated rainfall data. The review identified a diverse user requirement from core Met Office requirements for numerical weather prediction, rainfall radar adjustment and climatology...

... process in space and time, triggering another Poisson process of cell arrivals over the storm duration. These cells are displaced from the storm centre according to a normal distribution. Historic rainfall events are identified from a 3·5-year record of Met Office weather radar data from three different...

... 02 2008 22 04 2008 © 2009 Thomas Telford Ltd 2009 hydrology & water resource research & development weather Neiman et al. 24 used a simplified version of a formulation by Alpert 26 that equates the orographically forced upward flux of water vapour...

...D. L. Harrison, MSc; R. W. Scovell, MSc, MSci, MBCS; M. Kitchen, BSc The use of precipitation estimates from weather radar for hydrological applications has been limited by the quantitative accuracy, reliability and resolution. The adoption of a more centralised approach to radar data processing...

...F. Reichel, Dipl Ing; H.-R. Verworn, Dr Ing; S. Krämer, Dr Ing; I. Cluckie, FREng, PhD; M. A. Rico-Ramirez, PhD Weather radars provide high resolution in space and time and thus deliver distributed rainfall information. They therefore have high potential for exploitation in real-time flood...

...R. Wardlaw, BSc, PhD, FICE, CEng, MCIWEM; D. Jaigopaul, MSc; Z. Rahaman, Dip.Hyd. El Niño/southern oscillation (ENSO) activity is known to affect weather patterns in many parts of the world. This paper develops an approach to identifying signals and incorporating associated impacts on hydrological...