Tropical Storm Debby brought severe flooding to portions of southwestern Florida during the summer of 2012. Remotely-sensed images were collected to document the flooding and test the results of Hydrologic and Hydraulic (H & H) storm water models constructed by the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD). One image, a satellite, multi-band SPOT image was provided to the SWFWMD by t...

Storm Motion (SM) is a planned Initial Operational Capability (IOC) algorithm of the FAA's Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS). As currently designed, this algorithm will track the movement of storms/cells and convey this tracking information to the ITWS user by means of a graphic display of vectors (for direction) with accompanying numeric reports of storm speed, rounded to the nearest 5...

Design of water infrastructures requires estimation of design flow which is the runoff that an infrastructure can handle safely. For estimation of this design flow, rainfallrunoff modelling is widely adopted. Temporal pattern (the distribution of rainfall depths over sub-storm durations) is considered to be one of the most critical input variables in the rainfall-runoff modelling. Design tempor...

Coastal communities are becoming increasingly more vulnerable to storm surges under a changing climate. Tide gauges can be used to monitor alongshore variations of a storm surge, but not cross-shelf features. In this study we combine Jason-2 satellite measurements with tide-gauge data to study the storm surge caused by Hurricane Igor off Newfoundland. Satellite observations reveal a storm surge...

Vehicular Ad hoc Network (Vanet) is one of the emerging technologies to support safety, traffic monitoring and comfort related services. Vanet is a subclass of MANET but its topology changes rapidly and network gets disconnected frequently. The prevailing routing protocol of MANET is very much applicable to Vanet. Because of its frequently disconnecting routes it is difficult to design an effic...

This article presents the elements involved in the design of a bioretention planter/trench infiltration-detention system as part of a very large-scale urban retrofit project. The prototype system was designed to intercept all of the runoff from a synthetic 5.08-mm 24-h rainfall event. Diverted flows were conveyed into bioretention planter for treatment. The bioretention systems were fingerprint...

the economic growth and development programs in iran call for particular attention for environmental quality control and protection through designing proper sewage treatment and disposal. to design such system, 'the frequency analysis of rainfall is required for the estimation of quantities of flows. there are few places in iran, with adequate rainfall data to permit frequency analysis, an...

Hydrologic Engineering, April __________________________________________________________________________________ DESIGN RAINFALL CURVE James C.Y. Guo, Professor, Civil Engineering, U. of Colorado at Denver. __________________________________________________________________________ Abstract To design urban storm water infrastructures, hydrologists apply the SCS Type I and II 24-hr rainfall distr...