Real-time Flood Forecasting

An example of deterministic modeling would be applying Newton's laws to determine the precise location of a planet, say Jupiter, at a future point in time. The deterministic approach generally entails rather sophisticated and elaborate mathematics, while offering the advantage of rapid calculat...

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Published in:American scientist 2009-03, Vol.97 (2), p.119-125
Main Authors: Lai, Chintu, Tsay, Ting-Kuei, Chien, Chen-Ho, Wu, I-Ling
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Floods
Geography
Rain
River basins
Typhoons
Water resources
Weather forecasting
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Summary:An example of deterministic modeling would be applying Newton's laws to determine the precise location of a planet, say Jupiter, at a future point in time. The deterministic approach generally entails rather sophisticated and elaborate mathematics, while offering the advantage of rapid calculation, which is required for a real-time forecasting system, and rather precise results, which could prove to be quite important when the time came to sound a warning. The simulation results were reported to civil authorities as regularly timed warnings or intermittent emergency messages when dramatic changes in the rate of flow were predicted, fulfilling our technical goal of realtime, basin-wide, tide-affected, unsteady open-channel flow simulation.
ISSN:0003-0996
1545-2786
DOI:10.1511/2009.77.118