| Preface | |
| Synthetic hydrology - Where's the hydrology? | p. 3 |
| A natural law of open-channel flows | p. 15 |
| Uncertainty analysis in water resources engineering | p. 29 |
| Determination of peak contaminated bed load profile | p. 47 |
| Review of reliability analysis of water distribution systems | p. 53 |
| Stochastic optimization techniques in hydraulic engineering and management | p. 65 |
| Application of stochastic dynamic programming for the operation of a two-reservoir system on the Blue Nile in the Sudan | p. 73 |
| Application of probabilistic point estimation methods to optimal water resources management under uncertainty | p. 81 |
| Acceptable risk: A normative evaluation | p. 87 |
| Application of fuzzy set theory and neural networks to the control system of reservoir operation from the viewpoint of water resource | p. 95 |
| Stochasticity in environmental releases from reservoirs | p. 103 |
| Effects of fuzzy constraints in reservoir operation strategy | p. 111 |
| A more efficient approach to consideration of uncertainty in multiple reservoir operation | p. 119 |
| Use of fuzzy set theory for consideration of storage non-specificity in stochastic dynamic programming for reservoir operation | p. 129 |
| Reliability studies of multireservoir systems using stochastic techniques | p. 137 |
| Design and operation of engineering systems using regularized stochastic decomposition | p. 145 |
| Fuzzy prediction of reservoir life | p. 153 |
| Incorporating marginal distributions in point estimate methods for uncertainty analysis | p. 159 |
| Shannon's entropy-based bank profile equation of threshold channels | p. 169 |
| Analysis of the secondary currents of the outer bank erosion in channel bends | p. 177 |
| Entropy-based approaches to assessment of monitoring networks | p. 183 |
| The influence of the turbulent shear stress on the initiation of sediment motino in an open channel flow | p. 191 |
| A study of particle motion in turbulent layer boundary flows | p. 199 |
| The field test and stochastic evaluation of turbulent diffusivity off the southwestern coast of Taiwan | p. 205 |
| Turbulent flow structures from velocity time series | p. 209 |
| 3D numerical modelling of local scour by stochastic approach | p. 213 |
| Method for performance evaluation of hydrologic and hydraulic models | p. 221 |
| Monte Carlo method with spherical process for Dirichlet problem in hydraulics and fluid mechanics | p. 229 |
| Movement of sediment usiung a stochastic model with parameters varying as a function of discharge | p. 233 |
| A new statistical model for extreme water levels along the Dutch coast | p. 243 |
| Approximate joint probability analysis of extreme water levels in coastal catchments | p. 251 |
| Observations of bispectra of surface waves in deep and shallow waters | p. 259 |
| Criteria of bar and berm formation and seadike design | p. 265 |
| Dynamic characteristics of harbor oscillations in Helmholz mode | p. 271 |
| Wave climate off southern Taiwan and extreme wave prediction | p. 277 |
| Statistical properties of wave groups in nonlinear random waves of finite bandwidth | p. 283 |
| Comparison between a parametric model and measurements of seabed shear stresses under random waves with a current superimposed | p. 291 |
| Probabilistic estimation and simulation of water resources system due to global warming | p. 303 |
| Regional effects of climate change on the operational reliability of multi-purpose reservoirs | p. 311 |
| A statistical model of rainfall and temporal patterns | p. 317 |
| Rainfall forecasting using neural networks | p. 325 |
| Synthetic generation of missing run-off data for the White Nile, River Sobat and Bahr el-Jebel | p. 333 |
| Numerical solutions of stochastic differential equations in rainfall-runoff modeling | p. 341 |
| Prediction of rare inundation volumes of runoff | p. 349 |
| Statistical evaluation of monitoring networks in space/time dimensions | p. 357 |
| Analytical loop rating curves of flood waves | p. 365 |
| Overtopping risk analysis for the earth dam of Qinghe Reservoir | p. 371 |
| The effect of initial state in flood estimation model utilizing Kalman filter algorithm | p. 375 |
| Geometric characteristics of Arial Khan river in Bangladesh | p. 383 |
| The empirical simulation technique - A bootstrap-based life cycle approach to frequency analysis | p. 389 |
| Feasibility of the supervision and steering of a storm drainage system through rainfall scenarios recognition | p. 395 |
| Effect of rainfall characteristics on runoff in bamboo watershed | p. 403 |
| Dynamic channel routing for an urbanized basin | p. 411 |
| Uncertainty analysis of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity | p. 419 |
| Fractal structure and dynamic scaling of infiltration front | p. 425 |
| Stochastic optimal control framework for operation of SAT system considering parameter uncertainty and spatial variability of the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity | p. 433 |
| A stochastic model for clogging of porous column by sediment | p. 441 |
| Characteristics of turbulent shear stress applied to bed particles in an open channel flow | p. 451 |
| Prediction of longitudinal dispersion coefficient in natural streams | p. 459 |
| Risk analysis of salinity intrusion in Keelung River after channel regulation | p. 467 |
| Optimal control and data assimilation on the sea water circulation in Chinhae Bay | p. 475 |
| Estimation of groundwater recharge rate by application of time series analysis in the Pingtung Plain, Taiwan | p. 485 |
| Ergodic limit for spatial moments in nonuniform groundwater flow | p. 491 |
| Uncertainty and risk analyses for FEMA alluvial fan method | p. 499 |
| A methodology for forecasting non-Gaussian hydrological time series | p. 507 |
| Studies on statistical characteristics of the pressure fluctuation amplitude in outlet works | p. 517 |
| Uncertainty in estimations of excess shear stress | p. 521 |
| Effect of bed profile on reliability of flood levee design | p. 527 |
| Hydrodynamic characteristics and applications of compound-channel flows | p. 535 |
| Comparison of stochastics for stage-frequency analyses | p. 543 |
| Hydraulic characteristics of stepped spillway | p. 549 |
| Experimental study on the pressure transfer function | p. 553 |
| The occurrence of critical and supercritical velocities in natural channels | p. 561 |
| Operational guidance for reliable water supply | p. 569 |
| Statistical approaches to assessment of treatment plant efficiencies | p. 577 |
| Stochastic hydraulic reliability of a water distribution network | p. 585 |
| Reliability analysis on the stability reduction of armor blocks due to their uneven posture inclination on an artificial mound | p. 593 |
| Uncertainty in stage-discharge relationships | p. 601 |
| Uncertainty analysis of water distribution networks | p. 609 |
| An inverse analysis of model parameters for heterogeneous aquifer based on Genetic Algorithm | p. 617 |
| Sediment gradation analyses for aggragation/degradation process | p. 627 |
| Uncertainty analysis of sediment transport formulas | p. 637 |
| Power spectrum of flows of hyperconcentrated clay suspensions | p. 645 |
| Stochastic analysis of pressure fluctuations for sediment laden flow | p. 653 |
| Author Index | p. 661 |
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