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Honingh, D. (author)In this thesis, the rain conditions of Yangon and Bago are studied. During the rainy season large rain quantities fall in a short period, which quite regularly causes major floods in Myanmar. The floods have a devastating impact on urban society, so it is important to address this problem. For forecasting these floods and designing a proper...bachelor thesis 2016
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Askarinejad, A. (author), Laue, J. (author), Iten, M. (author), Zweidler, A. (author), Bleiker, E. (author), Buschor, H. (author), Springman, S.M. (author)A series of small scale physical modelling tests are performed in a geotechnical drum centrifuge in order to investigate the triggering mechanisms of landslides due to rainfall. They are conducted under controlled conditions of rainfall intensity and duration, ambient relative humidity, wind, and temperature. These tests have been designed to...conference paper 2012
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Spekkers, M.H. (author), Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. (author), Kok, M. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author)Insurance databases form a promising data source that can be used to improve pluvial flood damage estimations. This paper describes the key characteristics of an insurance database on water related damages to private buildings and content in the Netherlands that has been made available for research. The paper presents preliminary results of a...conference paper 2011
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Spekkers, M.H. (author), Kok, M. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author), Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. (author)Intense rainfall may locally cause considerable damage in cities, e.g. because of sewer floods. A better understanding of relationships between rainfall characteristics and rainfall-related damage can help insurers and flood authorities to respond more adequately to rainfall extremes. This paper aims to study to what extent weather radars can be...conference paper 2013
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Salciarini, D. (author), Castorino, G.C. (author), Cuomo, S. (author), Tamagnini, C. (author)In this paper we present a modified version of an existing, physically-based model for shallow landslide susceptibility analysis over large area. In general, the potentially unstable soil cover is considered uniform and homogeneous, over impervious underlying bedrock. In several case studies, this was proven to be unrealistic. The possibility of...conference paper 2015
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Shafiei, M. (author), Gharari, S. (author), Pande, S. (author), Bhulai, S. (author)Posterior sampling methods are increasingly being used to describe parameter and model predictive uncertainty in hydrologic modelling. This paper proposes an alternative to random walk chains (such as DREAM-zs). We propose a sampler based on independence chains with an embedded feature of standardized importance weights based on Kernel density...conference paper 2014
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Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. (author), Ochoa-Rodriguez, S. (author), Bruni, G. (author), Gires, A. (author), Van Assel, J. (author), Ichaba, A. (author), Kroll, S. (author), Wang, L.P. (author), Tchiguirinskaia, I. (author), Giangola Murzyn, A. (author), Richard, J. (author), Schertzer, D. (author), Willems, P. (author)Precipitation and catchment information needs to be available at high resolution to reliably predict hydrological response and potential flooding in urban catchments. While recent advances have been made in weather radar technology and availability of DTM for urban flood modelling, the question is whether these are sufficient to provide reliable...conference paper 2014
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Koole, W. (author), Overeem, A. (author), Van Riemsdijk, M.B. (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author), Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. (author)Extreme rainfall is expected to occur more often in the future, as a result of climate change. To be able to react on this change, urban water managers need to accurately know vulnerable spots in the city, as well as the potential impact to society. Currently, detailed information about rainfall intensities in cities, and effects of intense...conference paper 2015
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Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. (author), Ochoa-Rodriguez, S. (author), Gires, A. (author), Van Assel, J. (author), Ichiba, A. (author), Kroll, S. (author), Wang, L. (author), Tchiguirinskaia, I. (author), Schertzer, D. (author), Willems, P. (author)In this study high resolution precipitation data are used, derived from polarimetric X-band radar at 100 m, 1 min resolution. The data are used to study the impact of different space-time resolutions of rainfall input on urban hydrodynamic modelling response for 9 storms, in 7 urban catchments. The results show that hydrodynamic response...conference paper 2015
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Yuan, J (author), Papaioannou, I (author), Straub, D. (author)Landslide events often occur after rainfall events during which the pore water pressure builds up within surficial soil layers, leading to shallow slope failure. The spatial variability of the permeability parameters of the soil causes high gradients in pore water pressure when the rainwater infiltrates into the slope. In this paper, we compute...conference paper 2015
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Moreno Rodenas, A. (author), Cecinati, F. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author)This study addresses the effect of spatial and temporal resolution of rainfall fields on the performance of a simplified integrated catchment model for predicting dissolved oxygen concentrations in a river. For that purpose we propose a procedure to generate rainfall products with increasing spatial information at different time step...conference paper 2016
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Reale, C. (author), Gavin, Kenneth (author), Martinovic, Karlo (author)Many railway embankments across Europe were constructed over 150 years ago. These embankments were not subject to rigorous design practice but instead were crudely constructed using end tipping techniques. As a result, the majority of these embankments are overly steep and far in excess of the design angles recommended in Eurocode 7. Over recent...conference paper 2018
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Rongen, G.W.F. (author), Throssell, Ben (author)Accurately modelling rainfall events is crucial for flood risk assessment and stormwater infrastructure design. However, transforming statistical characteristics of events into relevant rainfall patterns is challenging due to the natural variability of rainfall. Two commonly used methods to schematize rainfall events have limitations: the nested...conference paper 2023
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Volp, C. (author)This study deals with the design of water management systems. Attention is focused on that phase in the design process in which variants are developed and evaluated with emphasis on the evaluation. The proposed evaluation procedure combines an economic evaluation with an evaluation of the hydraulic qualities- The economic evaluation implicates...doctoral thesis 1989
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- Spekkers, M.H. (author) doctoral thesis 2015
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Gharari, S. (author)Modeling is an essential part of the science of hydrology. Models enable us to formulate what we know and perceive from the real world into a neat package. Rainfall-runoff models are abstract simplifications of how a catchment works. Within the research field of scientific rainfall-runoff modeling, the focus is shifting from performance to...doctoral thesis 2016
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Visser, B. (author)This study aims at aiming an insight into the rainfall in the Netherlands with regard to the determination of the desirable capacity of draining-mills. With this end in view a statistical investigation has been made of the data of the daily quantities of rain during the years 1890 up to 1939 inclusive, at Boskoop, Leeghwater and Hoorn. First of...doctoral thesis 1947
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- Rientjes, T.H.M. (author) doctoral thesis 2004
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Chung, C.K. (author)This dissertation argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems. While most literature emphasizes that the increasing magnitude of storm rainfall extends beyond the original protection standards of hydrological...doctoral thesis 2014
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le Coz, C.M.L. (author)There is an increasing number of rainfall products available over Africa and globally. Rainfall has considerable socio-economic impacts in sub-Saharan Africa, and the sparse gauge and radar networks make such estimates particularly valuable. They are used in many important applications such as drought/flood forecasting, water management or...doctoral thesis 2021