Journal Papers

Listed here are the QUICS Project outputs to date, which are also available at the Zenodo Research Community.

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Date Title Journal Authors DOI
December 2018 An Insight to the Cornucopia of Possibilities in Calibration Data Collection Water Resources Management Tanja Vonach, Manfred Kleidorfer, Wolfgang Rauch, Franz Tscheikner-Gratl 10.1007/s11269-018-2163-6 [Open Access]
December 2018 A Hybrid Surrogate Modelling Strategy for Simplification of Detailed Urban Drainage Simulators Water Resources Management Mahmood Mahmoodian, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Vasilis Bellos, Ulrich Leopold, Georges Schutz, Francois Clemens 10.1007/s11269-018-2157-4 [Open Access]
December 2018 Recent insights on uncertainties present in integrated catchment water quality modelling Water Research Franz Tscheikner-Gratl, Vasilis Bellos , Alma Schellart, Antonio Moreno-Rodenas, Manoranjan Muthusamy, Jeroen Langeveld, Francois Clemens, Lorenzo Benedetti, Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez, Rita Fernandes de Carvalho, Lutz Breuer, James Shucksmith, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink, Simon Tait 10.1016/j.watres.2018.11.079 [Open Access]
November 2018 Considering Rain Gauge Uncertainty Using Kriging for Uncertain Data Atmosphere Francesca Cecinati, Antonio M. Moreno-Ródenas, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez, Marie-claire ten Veldhuis, Jeroen G. Langeveld 10.3390/atmos9110446 [Open Access]
November 2018 A Data-Driven Surrogate Modelling Approach for Acceleration of Short-Term Simulations of a Dynamic Urban Drainage Simulator Water Mahmood Mahmoodian, Jairo Arturo Torres-Matallana, Ulrich Leopold, Georges Schutz, Francois H. L. R. Clemens 10.3390/w10121849 [Open Access]
June 2018 stUPscales: An R-Package for Spatio-Temporal Uncertainty Propagation across Multiple Scales with Examples in Urban Water Modelling Water Jairo Arturo Torres-Matallana, Ulrich Leopold, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink 10.3390/w10070837 [Open Access]
June 2018 EmiStatR: A Simplified and Scalable Urban Water Quality Model for Simulation of Combined Sewer Overflows Water Jairo Arturo Torres-Matallana, Ulrich Leopold, Kai Klepiszewski, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink 10.3390/w10060782 [Open Access]
June 2018     Accounting for variation in rainfall intensity and surface slope in wash-off model calibration and prediction within the Bayesian framework Water Research Manoranjan Muthusamy, Omar Wani, Alma Schellart, Simon Tait 10.1016/j.watres.2018.06.022
June 2018 A dynamic emulator for physically-based flow simulators under varying rainfall and parametric conditions Water Research Antonio M. Moreno-Rodenas, Vasilis Bellos, Jeroen G. Langeveld, Francois H.L.R. Clemens 10.1016/j.watres.2018.06.011 [Open Access]
May 2018 Effects of Input Data Content on the Uncertainty of Simulating Water Resources Water Carla Camargos, Stefan Julich, Tobias Houska, Martin Bach, Lutz Breuer 10.3390/w10050621 [Open Access]
May 2018 Quantifying Uncertainty in Simulation of Sewer Overflow Volume Journal of Environmental Engineering Ambuj Kumar Sriwastava, Simon Tait, Alma Schellart, Stefan Kroll, Mieke Van Dorpe, Johan Van Assel, James Shucksmith 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001392 [Open Access]
April 2018 A comparative study of manhole hydraulics using stereoscopic PIV and different RANS models Water Science and Technology Md Nazmul Azim Beg, Rita F. Carvalho, Simon Tait, Wernher Brevis, Matteo Rubinato, Alma Schellart, Jorge Leandro 10.2166/wst.2018.089
March 2018 Accounting for non-stationary variance in the geostatistical mapping of soil properties Geoderma Alexandre M. J-C. Wadoux, Dick J. Brus, Gerard B. M. Heuvelink 10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.03.010
March 2018 Effect of surcharge on gully-manhole flow Journal of Hydro-environment Research Md Nazmul Azim Beg, Rita F. Carvalho, Jorge Leandro 10.1016/j.jher.2017.08.003
January 2018 A Heuristic Method for Measurement Site Selection in Sewer Systems Water Tanja Vonach, Franz Tscheikner-Gratl, Wolfgang Rauch, Manfred Kleidorfer 10.3390/w10020122 [Open Access]
January 2018 Improving understanding of the underlying physical process of sediment wash-off from urban road surfaces Journal of Hydrology     Manoranjan Muthusamy, Simon Tait, Alma Schellart, Md Nazmul Azim Beg, Rita F. Carvalho, João L.M.P. de Lima 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.11.047 [Open Access]
December 2017 Quantifying Roughness Coefficient Uncertainty in Urban Flooding Simulations through a Simplified Methodology Water     Vasilis Bellos, Ioannis M. Kourtis, Antonio Moreno-Rodenas, Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis 10.3390/w9120944 [Open Access]
November 2017 Impact of Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Rainfall Inputs on Integrated Catchment Dissolved Oxygen Simulations Water     Antonio M. Moreno-Rodenas, Francesca Cecinati, Jeroen Langeveld, Francois H. L. R. Clemens 10.3390/w9120926 [Open Access]
October 2017 Interpolation in Time Series: An Introductive Overview of Existing Methods, Their Performance Criteria and Uncertainty Assessment Water Mathieu Lepot, Jean-Baptiste Aubin, François H.L.R. Clemens 10.3390/w9100796 [Open Access]
October 2017 Comparing approaches to deal with non-Gaussianity of rainfall data in Kriging-based radar-gauge rainfall merging Water Resources Research Francesca Cecinati, Omar Wani, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez 10.1002/2016WR020330
October 2017 Optimal Temporal Resolution of Rainfall for Urban Applications and Uncertainty Propagation Water Francesca Cecinati, Arie C. de Niet, Kasia Sawicka, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez MDPI.com
August 2017 Residual uncertainty estimation using instance-based learning with applications to hydrologic forecasting Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) Omar Wani, Joost V. L. Beckers, Albrecht H. Weerts, Dimitri P. Solomatine 10.5194/hess-21-4021-2017 [Open Access]
June 2917 Sampling design optimisation for rainfall prediction using a non-stationary geostatistical model Advances in Water Resources Alexandre M.J-C. Wadoux, Dick J. Brus, Miguel A. Rico-Ramirez, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.06.005 [Open Access]
May 2017 Parameter estimation of hydrologic models using a likelihood function for censored and binary observations Water Research Omar Wani, Andreas Scheidegger, Juan Pablo Carbajal, Jörg Rieckermann, Frank Blumensaat 10.1016/j.watres.2017.05.038
March 2017     Representing radar rainfall uncertainty with ensembles based on a time-variant geostatistical error modelling approach Journal of Hydrology Francesca Cecinati, Miguel Angel Rico-Ramirez, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, and Dawei Han 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.02.053 [Open Access]
February 2017 Outlier detection in UV/Vis spectrophotometric data Urban Water Journal Mathieu Lepot, Jean-Baptiste Aubin, François H. L. R. Clemens & Alma Mašić 10.1080/1573062X.2017.1280515 [Open Access]
February 2017 Geostatistical upscaling of rain gauge data to support uncertainty analysis of lumped urban hydrological models Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) Manoranjan Muthusamy, Alma Schellart, Simon Tait, and Gerard B. M. Heuvelink 10.5194/hess-21-1077-2017 [Open Access]
January 2017 The Potential of Knowing More: A Review of Data-Driven Urban Water Management Environmental Science and Technology (Environ. Sci. Technol.) Sven Eggimann, Lena Mutzner, Omar Wani, Mariane Yvonne Schneider, Dorothee Spuhler, Matthew Moy de Vitry, Philipp Beutler, and Max Maurer 10.1021/acs.est.6b04267
January 2017 Pollution-Based Model Predictive Control of Combined Sewer Networks, Considering Uncertainty Propagation Int. J. Sus. Dev. Plann. Mahmood Mahmoodian, Orianne Delmont & Georges Schutz 10.2495/SDP-V12-N1-98-111 [Open Access]
December 2015 SPOTting Model Parameters Using a Ready-Made Python Package PLoS ONE Tobias Houska, Philipp Kraft, Alejandro Chamorro-Chavez & Lutz Breuer 10.1371/journal.pone.0145180 [Open Access]

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