Water Resources Research Report
Water Resources Research Report (WRRR) publishes studies conducted by the Facility for Intelligent Decision Support, which is a research unit in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Western Ontario.
The print ISSN of WRRR is 1913-3200. The online ISSN is 1913-3219.
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The Comparison of GEV, Log-Pearson Type 3 and Gumbel Distributions in the Upper Thames River Watershed under Global Climate Models
Nick Millington, Samiran Das, and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions has had a severe impact on global temperature, and is affecting weather patterns worldwide. -
An Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-Energy-Economic-Climatic System: User’s Manual
Mohammad Khaled Akhtar, Slobodan P. Simonovic, Jacob Wibe, Jim MacGee, and Jim Davies
The User's Manual is planned to assist the user in (i) understanding the ANEMI model structure; and (ii) learning how to use the model for policy simulation. -
An Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-Energy-Economic-Climatic System: Model Description
Mohammad Khaled Akhtar, Slobodan P. Simonovic, Jacob Wibe, Jim MacGee, and Jim Davies
This report presents ANEMI model and its nine individual sectors: climate, carbon cycle, land-use, population, food production, hydrologic cycle, water demand, water quality, and energy-economy. -
City of London: Vulnerability of Infrastructure to Climate Change Final Report
Angela Peck, Elisabeth Bowering, and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The Earth's climate is changing and these changes are documented to have a serious impact on municipal infrastructure. -
Water Resources Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Dejan Vucetic and Slobodan P. Simonovic
This report presents a set of examples that illustrate (a) probabilistic and (b) fuzzy set approaches for solving various water resources management problems. -
Development of Probability Based Intensity- Duration-Frequency Curves under Climate Change
Tarana A. Solaiman and Slobodan P. Simonovic
This study presents a methodology for updating the rainfall IDF curves for the City of London incorporating various uncertainties associated with the assessment of climate change impacts on a local scale. -
Assessment of Global and Regional Reanalyses Data for Hydro- Climatic Impact Studies in the Upper Thames River Basin
Tarana A. Solaiman and Slobodan P. Simonovic
This study evaluates NCEP-NCAR reanalyses hydro-climatic data as an initial check for assessment of climate change studies and hydrologic modeling on the basin scale. -
Quantifying Uncertainties in the Modelled Estimates of Extreme Precipitation Events at the Upper Thames River Basin
Tarana A. Solaiman and Slobodan P. Simonovic
Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation (AOGCM) models are designed to simulate time series of future climate responses accounting for enthropogenically induced green house gas emissions. -
City of London: Vulnerability of Infrastructure to Climate Change. Background Report #2: Hydraulic Modeling and Floodplain Mapping
Dragan Sredojevic and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The main objective of the research project currently under way is to provide an engineering assessment of the vulnerability of London’s public infrastructure under projected rates of climate change with special emphasis on flooding. -
City of London: Vulnerability of Infrastructure to Climate Change
Hyung-Il Eum and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The climate is changing and these changes may induce severe impacts on both, global and local scales. An original systematic procedure is used to gather and examine available data in order to develop an understanding of the relevant climate effects and their interactions with infrastructure. -
Use of an Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-economic-climatic System in Policy Development
Christopher J. Popovich, Slobodan P. Simonovic, and Gordon A. McBean
This report will explain the process of science-policy communication related to the development of an integrated system dynamics model of the social-economic-climatic system at the University of Western Ontario under NSERC strategic grant program funding. -
Assessment of Climatic Vulnerability in the Upper Thames River Basin: Part 2
Leanna King, Tarana A. Solaiman, and Slobodan P. Simonovic
In this study, statistical downscaling using a modified K-NN weather generator with perturbation and principle component analysis (WG-PCA) is employed to investigate the potential impacts of climatic change in the Upper Thames River basin. -
Updated Rainfall Intensity Duration Frequency Curves for the City of London under the Changing Climate
Slobodan P. Simonovic and Angela Peck
The main focus of this study is the update of rainfall IDF curves for the City of London under the conditions of changed climate. -
Assessment of Climatic Vulnerability in the Upper Thames River Basin
Leanna King, Tarana Solaiman, and Slobodan P. Simonovic
This study provides an assessment of possible future climate conditions for the Upper Thames River Basin. -
Energy Sector for the Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-Economic-Climatic Model
Evan G. R. Davies and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The system dynamics-based energy sector described here adds a representation of energy supply and demand dynamics, and their associated carbon emissions, to a larger society-biosphere-climate model previously described in Davies and Simonovic (2008). -
Integrated Reservoir Management System for Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in the Upper Thames River Basin
Hyung-Il Eum, Vasan Arunachalam, and Slobodan P. Simonovic
This study presents an integrated reservoir management system for the Upper Thames River basin that includes: (1) a Weather Generator (WG) model; (2) a hydrologic model; and (3) a differential evolutionary optimization model. -
A Fuzzy Set Theory Based Methodology for Analysis of Uncertainties in Stage-Discharge Measurements and Rating Curve
Rajesh R. Shrestha and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The study considers individual sources of uncertainty from measurements to the single valued and looped rating curves. The study also shows that the fuzzy set theory provides an appropriate methodology for the analysis of the uncertainties in a nonprobabilistic framework. -
Optimization Using Differential Evolution
Vasan Arunachalam
The book explains in detail the working of Differential Evolution optimization algorithm. -
An Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-Economic-Climatic System: Model Description and Model Use Guide
Evan G. R. Davies and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The society-biosphere-climate model described here takes an integrated assessment approach to simulating global change. -
Development of Rainfall Intensity duration Frequency Curves for the City of London under the Changing Climate
Predrag Prodanovic and Slobodan P. Simonovic
The main focus of this study is the analysis of short duration high intensity rainfall for London, Ontario under the conditions of the changed climate.