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View article: Studying the Effects of Private Water Storage Tanks on Pump Scheduling Optimization and Leakage Control
Studying the Effects of Private Water Storage Tanks on Pump Scheduling Optimization and Leakage Control Open
The use of pumps in water distribution networks is very useful when there is a need for additional pressure head. However, the functioning of pumps can be influenced by the presence of private storage tanks in the network, which alters the…
View article: The Necessity of Updating IDF Curves for the Sharjah Emirate, UAE: A Comparative Analysis of 2020 IDF Values in Light of Recent Urban Flooding (April 2024)
The Necessity of Updating IDF Curves for the Sharjah Emirate, UAE: A Comparative Analysis of 2020 IDF Values in Light of Recent Urban Flooding (April 2024) Open
In the arid Arabian Peninsula, particularly within the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the perception of rainfall has shifted from a natural blessing to a significant challenge for infrastructure and community resilience. The unprecedented sto…
View article: The use of crowdsourced social media data to improve flood forecasting
The use of crowdsourced social media data to improve flood forecasting Open
Reliable flood forecasting systems are essential for predicting and mitigating the impact of flooding worldwide. However, minimising flood forecast uncertainties remains a challenging task due to many sources of uncertainty in underlying f…
View article: A Review of Hydrological Studies in the United Arab Emirates
A Review of Hydrological Studies in the United Arab Emirates Open
The increasing interest in hydrological studies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has resulted in the publication of several papers on hydrology and its broad use for addressing contemporaneous challenges confronting humans and the environ…
View article: Why does community-based disaster risk reduction fail to learn from local knowledge? Experiences from Malawi
Why does community-based disaster risk reduction fail to learn from local knowledge? Experiences from Malawi Open
It is often taken as given that community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) serves as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). In this paper, through in-depth qualitative analysis of empir…
View article: Study of Impact of Cloud-Seeding on Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves of Sharjah City, the United Arab Emirates
Study of Impact of Cloud-Seeding on Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves of Sharjah City, the United Arab Emirates Open
Despite the availability of some studies related to rainfall characteristics in Sharjah city and the UAE, very few of these studies have investigated any causal link between recent cloud-seeding missions and the increasing rainfall intensi…
View article: Laboratory Investigation of Geobag Revetment Performance in Rivers
Laboratory Investigation of Geobag Revetment Performance in Rivers Open
Geobag (sand-filled geotextile bags) revetments have recently emerged as long-term riverbank protection measures in developing countries; however, their performance is still not well understood. The hydraulic stability of geobag revetments…
View article: The impact of data spatial resolution on flood vulnerability assessment
The impact of data spatial resolution on flood vulnerability assessment Open
Index-based approaches are a popular method for assessing societal vulnerability to flooding, many of which differ in terms of indicator selection, underlying social data, spatial scale and aggregation methods. They are typically assessed …
View article: Identifying and analyzing residential water demand profile; including the impact of COVID-19 and month of Ramadan, for selected developments in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Identifying and analyzing residential water demand profile; including the impact of COVID-19 and month of Ramadan, for selected developments in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Open
Consumption of water varies throughout the day due to the daily routines of the consumer. This pattern of daily water consumption is called the water demand profile. The initiatives to create these profiles are to improve hydraulic perform…
View article: Characterising Local Knowledge across the Flood Risk Management Cycle: A Case Study of Southern Malawi
Characterising Local Knowledge across the Flood Risk Management Cycle: A Case Study of Southern Malawi Open
People possess a creative set of strategies based on their local knowledge (LK) that allow them to stay in flood-prone areas. Stakeholders involved with local level flood risk management (FRM) often overlook and underutilise this LK. There…
View article: Taking stock of community-based flood risk management in Malawi: different stakeholders, different perspectives
Taking stock of community-based flood risk management in Malawi: different stakeholders, different perspectives Open
Current flood risk strategies in Malawi are characterized by community-based flood risk management (CB-FRM), even though studies explicitly documenting evidence of successful CB-FRM remain limited. This paper investigates the realities and…
View article: Simulating Geobag Revement Failure Processes
Simulating Geobag Revement Failure Processes Open
An experimental and numerical study has been carried out to help develop design guidelines for the construction of low-cost river bank protection using geobags. Building upon previous work, a 1:10 scale model was tested in a laboratory flu…
View article: Experimental study on the hydrological performance of a permeable pavement
Experimental study on the hydrological performance of a permeable pavement Open
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