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  • 110-Systems Thinking in Fair Water Resources Allocation. 
    Hipel, Keith W.; Wang, Lizhong; Fang, Liping (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Systems thinking approaches are employed to construct a formal decision making methodology for equitably allocating water among competing users in a river basin when taking into account both the societal and physical systems ...
  • 81-Comparison of Lumped Rainfall-Runoff Modelling Approaches for a Semiarid Basin. 
    Overllana, Barbara; McIntyre, Neil; Wheater, Howard; Sarkar, Archana; Young, Peter (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    This study compares three different approaches to continuous-time modelling of the daily rainfall-runoff response of the Dedtalai basin, India. The main objective is to compare the modelled response of the watershed using ...
  • 122-Decision Support Tools for Water Resources Planning and Management. 
    Kjelds, J. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water Resources Planning and Management focuses on an integration and consideration of key water management issues that are important on watershed and sub-basin scale. The methodology is facilitated by active use of ...
  • 105-Rainfall Station Network Optimization Using Entropy Method. 
    Jairaj, P. G.; Remya, A. R. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Data collection forms the basis for most of the analysis and decision making process in hydrological studies. An efficient data collection network is to be designed so as to minimize the expenditure in data collection, at ...
  • 78-A Hydrologic Flood Forecasting System for Mesoamerica. 
    Villalobos, Jose E.; Singh, Vijay P. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Frequent flooding is a common occurrence in the Mesoamerica region, causing both death and destruction. With a flood forecasting system in place, the safety and security of both people and property in this region can be ...
  • Acknowledgements 
    National Institute of Hydrology (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • 84-Modifying a Drought Early Warning Model Using MODIS Satellite Data. 
    Boken, Vijendra K.; Haque, C. E. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    An early warning model had been developed using two variables derived from rainfall data to predict agricultural drought for Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, India. The model explained up to 74.1% of the variation in the ...
  • 76-The U. S. National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) 
    Pulwarty, Roger S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • Preface 
    Jain, Sharad K.; Singh, Vijay P.; Kumar, Vijay; Kumar, Rakesh; Singh, R. D.; Sharma, K. D. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
  • 107-Seasonally Variant Spatial Variability and Implications for Watershed Modeling, Monitoring and Management. 
    Rudra, Ramesh P.; Dickinson, Trevor; Ahmed, Syed I. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Many water resources issues now require careful consideration of not only the spatial variability of hydrologic processes but also the seasonal variability of the spatial variability in watersheds. Examples of such issues ...
  • 79-Flood Hazard Analysis and Mitigation. 
    Shrestha, Parmeshwar L.; Hamilton, Douglas L.; Cydzik, Kristina; Wardak, Soorgul; Jordan, Neil; Shaller, Philip J.; Doroudian, Macan (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    This paper describes the procedures adopted for delineation of flood hazards and potential mitigation measures to support the development of inland communities in California, many of which are located on alluvial fans. The ...
  • 108-Uncertainty Quantification for Hydrologic Models Using Copula. 
    Maity, Rajib; Kumar, D. Nagesh (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    A copula is a function that joins or 'couples' multivariate distribution function to their one dimensional marginal distribution functions. The strong theoretical background of copula draws the attention of researchers in ...
  • 101-Sustainable Water Supply System in India - Public Private Partnership. 
    Khitoliya, R. K.; Kumar, Kamal (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Conservation and equitable distribution of our limited fresh water resources and its management is one of the greatest challenges being faced by human development. According to the recent World Water development report, ...
  • 120-Development of Reservoir Operational Policy Using Soft Computing. 
    Sivakumar, S.; Mohan, S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Optimization models have proved to be powerful and useful methods to solve the design and operation problems associated with reservoir problems. A heuristic simulation based optimization model has been developed to optimize ...
  • 64-Mutual Control between Nodes and Edges of a Complex Network. 
    Fiorentino, Mauro; Sanchirico, Antonio (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    One of the most fascinating discoveries of the last years is that numerous complex systems, although very different among them, as belonging to physical, biological, chemical, informational, social or other environments, ...
  • 88-Monitoring Network Optimization for Flood Forecasting and Warning Purposes. 
    Barbetta, S.; Brocca, L.; Melone, F.; Moramarco, T. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    The hydrological-hydraulic risk mitigation as well as the flood forecasting and warning activity require the knowledge of the main hydrological quantities and, hence, cannot prescind from observations. The distributed or ...
  • 92-Potential for Implementation of Water Demand Management in Bahrain. 
    Al-Maskati, H.; Smith, M. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Water is now considered a scarce but essential resource that should be managed in an integrated manner. Current urban water management concepts and practices cannot adequately respond to these requirements. The traditional ...
  • 115-Development and Application of an Integrated Reservoir-Based Canal Irrigation Model (IRCIM). 
    Bhadra, A.; Bandyopadhyay, Arnab; Singh, R.; Raghuwanshi, N. S. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Most of the irrigation literatures mainly focus on the demand and distribution aspects only. Irrigation projects, which receive water from reservoir, can be challenging to manage since annual fluctuations in runoff from ...
  • 127-Decision Supporting System for Sathanur Command Area. 
    Natarajan, N.; Sivapragasam, C.; Ambujam, N. K. (Allied Publishers Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2009)
    Often, the planners and decision makers have difficulties in ascertaining the amount of release and the command area to be irrigated during a given season due to the stochastic nature of inputs such as the inflow into the ...
  • Author Index 
    National Institute of Hydrology (Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009)