Browsing Civil and Environmental Engineering by Supervisor "Burn, Donald"
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Approaches for Nonstationary Flood Frequency and Trend Analyses for Hydrometric Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)Peak hydrometeorological events have been the topic of much concern in recent years, chiefly their frequency and magnitude. According to the Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ... -
Assessment of Regional Flood Frequency Analysis Frameworks for Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-10)Floods are a devastating natural disaster causing economic loss and even threatening human lives. A better understanding of floods can lead to improved design of flood mitigation measures. The Natural Sciences and Engineering ... -
Climate Change Projection and Time-varying Multi-dimensional Risk Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-20)In recent decades, population growth and global warming consequent to greenhouse gas emissions because of human activities, has changed the atmospheric composition leading to intensifying extreme climate phenomena and ... -
Evaluation of Techniques for Flood Quantile Estimation in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-08)As one of the most destructive natural hazards, floods have a strong and devastating influence on various aspects of human society and the environment. Damages from floods can include property loss, destruction of ... -
Regional Frequency Analysis Estimates of Extreme Rainfall Events under Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-09)Extreme rainfall events have a long history of causing large economic damages in urban areas and even loss of human life. Reliable estimates of extreme rainfall intensities for different rainfall durations are essential ... -
Relating Changes in Extreme Streamflow Events to Changes in Extreme Rainfall Events in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)The changes in extreme events caused by climate change are likely to have significant impacts in the future. It is expected that climate change will cause changes in rainfall intensities and magnitudes and consequently ... -
Updating the Canadian Reference Hydrometric Basin Network to detect climate-related trends in streamflow
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)This thesis developed a new set of selection criteria to renew the Canadian Reference Hydrometric Basin Network (RHBN) and improve its coverage of non-atmospheric factors affecting streamflow such as geographic location, ...