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João Dehon Pontes Filho, Maria Manuela Portela, Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart and Francisco de Assis Souza Filho
The standardized precipitation index (SPI), is one of the most used drought indices. However, it is difficult to use to monitor the ongoing drought characteristics because it cannot be expeditiously related to precipitation deficits. It also does not pro...
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Matthew G. Montgomery, Miles B. Yaw and John S. Schwartz
Probabilistic risk methods are becoming increasingly accepted as a means of carrying out risk-informed decision making regarding the design and operation policy of structures such as dams. Probabilistic risk calculations require the quantification of epi...
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Namitha Viona Pais, James O?Donnell and Nalini Ravishanker
The design strategies for flood risk reduction in coastal towns must be informed by the likelihood of flooding resulting from both precipitation and coastal storm surge. This paper discusses various bivariate extreme value methods to investigate the join...
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Xin Huang and Lin Qiu
Exploring the relationship between runoff and sediment elements in a river basin is a prerequisite for realizing the scientific management scheme of runoff and sediment. In this study, six commonly applied probability distributions are utilized to fit th...
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Mingwen Zhao, Xiaodong Deng and Jichao Wang
The bivariate probability distribution of significant wave heights and mean wave periods has an indispensable guiding role in the implementation of offshore engineering, which has attracted great attention. This work gives a new bivariate method to descr...
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Guilin Liu, Chi Nie, Yi Kou, Yi Yang, Daniel Zhao, Fang Wu and Pubing Yu
In the design of offshore platforms, the height of the bottom deck directly affects the safety and engineering cost of the entire platform. It is a very important scale parameter in platform planning. The American Petroleum Institute (API) specification ...
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Yutao Chi and Zengrui Rong
Disastrous storm surges and waves caused by typhoons are major marine dynamic disasters affecting the east China coast and the Changjiang River Estuary, especially when they occur coincidentally. In this study, a high-resolution wave?current coupled mode...
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Xuli Zan, Ziyao Xing, Xiang Gao, Wei Liu, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhe Liu and Shaoming Li
Mastering the lodging risk of planting environment is of great significance to the optimal layout of maize varieties and the breeding of lodging resistant varieties. However, the existing lodging risk models are still at the stage of single or multi-fact...
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Yang Wang, Chuanzhe Li, Jia Liu, Fuliang Yu, Qingtai Qiu, Jiyang Tian and Mengjie Zhang
The performance evaluation of a city?s flood control system is essentially based on accurate storm designs, where a particular challenge is the development of the joint distributions of dependent rainfall variables. When it comes to the research design f...
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Yang Wang, Chuanzhe Li, Jia Liu, Fuliang Yu, Qingtai Qiu, Jiyang Tian, Mengjie Zhang
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The performance evaluation of a city?s flood control system is essentially based on accurate storm designs, where a particular challenge is the development of the joint distributions of dependent rainfall variables. When it comes to the research design f...
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Benjamin T. Phillips, Jennifer M. Brown, Jean-Raymond Bidlot and Andrew J. Plater
Understanding the role of beach morphology in controlling wave overtopping volume will further minimise uncertainties in flood risk assessments at coastal locations defended by engineered structures worldwide. XBeach is used to model wave overtopping vol...
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Benjamin T. Phillips, Jennifer M. Brown, Jean-Raymond Bidlot and Andrew J. Plater
Understanding the role of beach morphology in controlling wave overtopping volume will further minimise uncertainties in flood risk assessments at coastal locations defended by engineered structures worldwide. XBeach is used to model wave overtopping vol...
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Jordan R. Fischbach, David R. Johnson and Kenneth Kuhn
Modern joint probability methods for estimating storm surge or flood statistics are based on statistical aggregation of many hydrodynamic simulations that can be computationally expensive. Flood risk assessments that consider changing future conditions d...
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Aijun Guo, Jianxia Chang, Yimin Wang, Qiang Huang
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This study investigates the runoff-sediment relationship (RSR) of the Weihe River, a sandy waterway originating from the Loess Plateau, and considers the potential variations in RSR under an evolving environment. The double mass curve method was used to ...
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Aijun Guo, Jianxia Chang, Yimin Wang and Qiang Huang
This study investigates the runoff-sediment relationship (RSR) of the Weihe River, a sandy waterway originating from the Loess Plateau, and considers the potential variations in RSR under an evolving environment. The double mass curve method was used to ...
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Hua Zhong, Peter-Jules Van Overloop, Pieter Van Gelder and Ties Rijcken
The Rhine River Delta is crucial to the Dutch economy. The Maeslant barrier was built in 1997 to protect the Rhine estuary, with the city and port of Rotterdam, from storm surges. This research takes a simple approach to quantify the influence of the Mae...
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Stephanie M. Dohner and Carter B. DuVal
Coastal development and its associated site management have rapidly expanded to estuarine environments while continuing to increase worldwide. With the growth of coastal management projects, field observations are required to understand how anthropogenic...
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Georgios Matheou
The growth of computing power combined with advances in modeling methods can yield high-fidelity simulations establishing numerical simulation as a key tool for discovery in the atmospheric sciences. A fine-scale large-eddy simulation (LES) utilizing 1.2...
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Hua Zhong, Pieter Van Gelder, Wen Wang, Gaoxu Wang, Yongzhi Liu and Shuai Niu
The hydrodynamic characteristics of a delta or estuary are mainly governed by discharges of rivers and water level at the sea (or lake) boundaries. A joint probability approach is widely applied to quantify the high water level frequency in deltas. In th...
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Haoxin Li, Dongguo Shao, Baoli Xu, Shu Chen, Wenquan Gu and Xuezhi Tan
The risk analysis of an irrigation water allocation strategy based on physical mechanisms is critically important in practice. Conventional risk analysis only considers the role of the channel system and ignores the factors related to on-farm ponds. This...
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