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主  题：美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校教授讲座 National Water Model of the United States

主讲人：Prof. David R. Maidment

时  间：2016年10月20 日(星期四) 9:30-11:30

地  点：北京师范大学教二楼101

讲座内容介绍：

On 16 August 2016, the National Water Service began operating a National Water Model of the continental United States, which continually forecasts water flow in 2.7 million reaches covering 5.2 million km of streams and rivers.  This is underpinned by a continuous computation of soil moisture on a 1 km grid covering the continental US.  Thus, water has become like weather – forecast continuously and at local scale.  Over the past two years, the speaker has led the interaction of the academic community with the National Weather Service to help build the research base for the National Water Model through 7-week Summer Institutes for graduate students held at the new National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  A real-time flood inundation mapping system is also being built for Texas to translate the discharge forecasts from the National Water Model into forecast of flood water depth and inundation extent.   The seminar will summarize these activities and look forward to anticipate how a National Water Model might be developed for China.

主讲人简介：

David R. Maidment is the Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he has been on the faculty since 1981.  He received his Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering with First Class Honors from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and his MS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, he was a research scientist at the Ministry of Works and Development in New Zealand, and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna, Austria, and he was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.

 

 

Dr Maidment is a specialist in surface water hydrology, and in particular in the application of geographic information systems to hydrology. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "For development of geographic information systems applied to hydrologic processes".

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