![Graphic][1] Mike Land contemplating discoveries after a long day on board the British Research vessel RRS Discovery, 1987, in Atlantic outside West Africa. Michael Francis – known to his colleagues and friends as Mike was born Dartmouth, UK, 12 April 1942 died

Sedimentation upstream of a weir is common phenomenon, especially for river with high sedimentation. In the long term, this can lead to problems since discharge capacity will decrease due rise riverbed, as experienced in Bekasi Weir, West Java, Indonesia. The accumulated sediments increased up 1.5 m from its original riverbed decade. One easiest ways overcome issue return elevation actual by ma...

The most widely and popularly used method for prediction of flood hydrograph resulting from a known storm in a basin area use historical rainfallrunoff data and unit hydrographs derived from them. These procedures are highly unreliable due to the climatic and physical changes in the watershed and their implementation to ungauged catchments. The use of physically based rainfall-runoff estimation...

Change of the environment, namely climate change and human activities, is influencing hydrological cycles globally. Nonstationary changes have been widely detected in precipitation series, which has significantly increased flood risk various areas. Taking Taihu Basin as typical study area, nonstationary characteristics are analyzed through Mann-Kendall trend test, Pettitt abrupt Sen’s slope est...

flood is considered as a major threat among natural disasters in the world. this case becomes more important and has a higher risk in urban areas due to the existence of important uses. therefore, to reduce damages resulted from flood, this phenomenon must be managed and planned using structural and non-structural approaches. considering the development in iran has been carried out in high risk...