The objective of the project was to develop a web-based digital tool called the Water Security As... more The objective of the project was to develop a web-based digital tool called the Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT) to help city authorities and decision-makers make an objective evaluation of the water security situation in the city. It uses an indicator-based methodology that measures five distinct dimensions (broad elements) of water security: “Water supply and sanitation”, “Water productivity”, “Water-related disasters”, “Water environment”, and “Water governance”, which together culminate into a Water Security Index (WSI). The tool is developed based on the water security assessment framework developed by Babel, Dang, Sharma, and Shinde (2015). WATSAT results in a quantitative assessment of water security in a city, wherein the WSI provides an overall picture of the water security situation in a city, while the evaluation of the various dimensions helps identify areas of concern. WATSAT aids city authorities in having a holistic understanding of water security and interconn...
The various negative impacts on the environment and society caused by land subsidence have been a... more The various negative impacts on the environment and society caused by land subsidence have been a problem in Bangkok, Thailand, since the 1970s. Intensive groundwater extraction for industrial and domestic purposes since the 1950s, which led to a decline of groundwater levels, has been identified by various studies as the primary cause of the phenomenon of land subsidence. This paper gives an overview of the occurrence of land subsidence in Bangkok. The history, characteristics, identified causes, and measures for mitigation of land subsidence in the area are discussed. Efforts to alleviate the problems and studies that have been conducted to understand the problem are presented and analyzed.
Accurate model-based forecasts (discharge and water level) are considered significant for efficie... more Accurate model-based forecasts (discharge and water level) are considered significant for efficient planning and management of urban drainage systems. These model-based predictions can be improved by assimilating system measurements in physically based, distributed, 1D hydrodynamic urban drainage models. In the present research, a combined filtering and error forecast method was applied for the data assimilation to update the states of the urban drainage model. The developed data assimilation set-up in combination with the 1D hydrodynamic model was applied at the Damhusåen Catchment, Copenhagen. Discharge assimilation represented significant potential to update model forecast, and maximum volume error was reduced by 22% and 6% at two verification locations. The assimilation of water levels had a minor impact on the update of the system states. The updated forecast skill using error forecast models was enhanced up to 1–2 hours and 6–7 hours lead time at upstream assimilation and down...
Accurate rainfall estimates are important in many hydrologic activities. Rainfall data are retrie... more Accurate rainfall estimates are important in many hydrologic activities. Rainfall data are retrieved from rain gauges (RGs), satellites, radars, and re-analysis products. The accuracy of gauge-based gridded precipitation products (GbGPPs) relies on the distribution of RGs and the quality of rainfall data records obtained from these. The accuracy of satellite-based precipitation products (SbPPs) depends on many factors, including basin climatology, basin topography, precipitation mechanism, etc. The hydrologic utility of different precipitation products was examined in many developed regions; however, less focused on the developing world. The Huai Bang Sai (HBS) watershed in north-eastern Thailand is a less focused but an important catchment that significantly contributes to the water resources in Thailand. Therefore, this research presents the investigation results of the hydrologic utility of SbPPs and GbGPPs in the HBS watershed. The efficiency of nine SbPPs (including 3B42, 3B42-...
In this study, 28 climate models from the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Projec... more In this study, 28 climate models from the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) and 32 models from the sixth phase (CMIP6) have been evaluated for their ability to simulate large‐scale atmospheric circulations (using rainfall, wind fields, geopotential height, temperature, and moisture flux convergence) for the summer monsoon in Southeast Asia. Using a multi‐criteria decision making technique, models have been ranked based on 25 metrics which compare their performances with observation data. Results indicate a better representation of annual rainfall cycles as well as spatial pattern by CMIP6 models compared to CMIP5. Though majority of the models from both CMIPs show late onset and early retreat of the rainy season, CMIP6 GCMs simulate the onset, retreat, and the length of the rainy season closer to the observation. Large‐scale circulation patterns evaluated using spatial correlation and root mean square error (RMSE) show improvements in CMIP6 across all metrics, especially for the moisture flux convergence. Performances for large‐scale circulation are generally reflected in rainfall simulation; however, few models showed that better simulations of rainfall do not exclusively depend on their performance for large‐scale variables. Overall, CMIP6 models are found to be superior to CMIP5 models in simulating rainfall and large‐scale circulation, which is likely attributable to CMIP6 model's higher spatial resolutions, increased number of vertical levels, improved atmospheric and land surface parameterization, etc. Finally, subsets of optimal models from CMIP5 and CMIP6 that proved to be better at representing the summer monsoons in the study area are identified. These models are recommended to develop robust future projections that can be used for climate change impact and adaptation studies.
In the present study, the streamflow simulation capacities between the Soil and Water Assessment ... more In the present study, the streamflow simulation capacities between the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and the Hydrologic Engineering Centre-Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS) were compared for the Huai Bang Sai (HBS) watershed in northeastern Thailand. During calibration (2007–2010) and validation (2011–2014), the SWAT model demonstrated a Coefficient of Determination (R2) and a Nash Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) of 0.83 and 0.82, and 0.78 and 0.77, respectively. During the same periods, the HEC-HMS model demonstrated values of 0.80 and 0.79, and 0.84 and 0.82. The exceedance probabilities at 10%, 40%, and 90% were 144.5, 14.5, and 0.9 mm in the flow duration curves (FDCs) obtained for observed flow. From the HEC-HMS and SWAT models, these indices yielded 109.0, 15.0, and 0.02 mm, and 123.5, 16.95, and 0.02 mm. These results inferred those high flows were captured well by the SWAT model, while medium flows were captured well by the HEC-HMS model. It is noteworthy that the low...
Early warning is a key element for disaster risk reduction. However, the advances in generating h... more Early warning is a key element for disaster risk reduction. However, the advances in generating hazard risk information have not yet been incorporated into operational forecast systems and consequently, operational forecasts have not been integrated into decision making processes in order to reduce disaster risks. This article aims to design location-specific user-need based flood forecast products on different time scales for reducing flood risks. Using 1-10 days multiple weather ensemble (EPS) forecasts of the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts (ECMWF), integrating hydrological models, and combining these with GIS and local user needs, the decision support system (DSS) is designed to interpret, translate, and communicate science-based risk information into user-friendly early warning information products to assist emergency managers and decision makers. The DSS interface allows users to interactively specify the objectives and criteria that are relevant to a particular sit...
This study aims to project future sea-level rise (SLR) at the Phrachula Chomklao Fort (PCF) tide ... more This study aims to project future sea-level rise (SLR) at the Phrachula Chomklao Fort (PCF) tide gauge station in the Upper Gulf of Thailand (UGoT) using the outputs of 35 climate models under two greenhouse gas concentration scenarios: representative concentration pathway 4.5 (RCP4.5) and RCP8.5. The Linear Scaling method was found to be better than Variance Scaling and Quantile Mapping methods for removing biases in raw Global Circulation Models (GCMs) sea level data. Land subsidence, induced by excessive groundwater abstraction, was found to contribute significantly to SLR during the observed period the PCF gauging station; hence, the effects of land subsidence had to be removed from relative sea level before bias correction. The overall increase in SLR is projected to be 0.94–1.05 mm/year under RCP4.5 and 1.07–1.18 mm/year under RCP8.5 for the twenty-first century in the UGoT. The results suggest that future SLR due to climate change will not be as severe in the study region com...
The objective of the project was to develop a web-based digital tool called the Water Security As... more The objective of the project was to develop a web-based digital tool called the Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT) to help city authorities and decision-makers make an objective evaluation of the water security situation in the city. It uses an indicator-based methodology that measures five distinct dimensions (broad elements) of water security: “Water supply and sanitation”, “Water productivity”, “Water-related disasters”, “Water environment”, and “Water governance”, which together culminate into a Water Security Index (WSI). The tool is developed based on the water security assessment framework developed by Babel, Dang, Sharma, and Shinde (2015). WATSAT results in a quantitative assessment of water security in a city, wherein the WSI provides an overall picture of the water security situation in a city, while the evaluation of the various dimensions helps identify areas of concern. WATSAT aids city authorities in having a holistic understanding of water security and interconn...
The various negative impacts on the environment and society caused by land subsidence have been a... more The various negative impacts on the environment and society caused by land subsidence have been a problem in Bangkok, Thailand, since the 1970s. Intensive groundwater extraction for industrial and domestic purposes since the 1950s, which led to a decline of groundwater levels, has been identified by various studies as the primary cause of the phenomenon of land subsidence. This paper gives an overview of the occurrence of land subsidence in Bangkok. The history, characteristics, identified causes, and measures for mitigation of land subsidence in the area are discussed. Efforts to alleviate the problems and studies that have been conducted to understand the problem are presented and analyzed.
Accurate model-based forecasts (discharge and water level) are considered significant for efficie... more Accurate model-based forecasts (discharge and water level) are considered significant for efficient planning and management of urban drainage systems. These model-based predictions can be improved by assimilating system measurements in physically based, distributed, 1D hydrodynamic urban drainage models. In the present research, a combined filtering and error forecast method was applied for the data assimilation to update the states of the urban drainage model. The developed data assimilation set-up in combination with the 1D hydrodynamic model was applied at the Damhusåen Catchment, Copenhagen. Discharge assimilation represented significant potential to update model forecast, and maximum volume error was reduced by 22% and 6% at two verification locations. The assimilation of water levels had a minor impact on the update of the system states. The updated forecast skill using error forecast models was enhanced up to 1–2 hours and 6–7 hours lead time at upstream assimilation and down...
Accurate rainfall estimates are important in many hydrologic activities. Rainfall data are retrie... more Accurate rainfall estimates are important in many hydrologic activities. Rainfall data are retrieved from rain gauges (RGs), satellites, radars, and re-analysis products. The accuracy of gauge-based gridded precipitation products (GbGPPs) relies on the distribution of RGs and the quality of rainfall data records obtained from these. The accuracy of satellite-based precipitation products (SbPPs) depends on many factors, including basin climatology, basin topography, precipitation mechanism, etc. The hydrologic utility of different precipitation products was examined in many developed regions; however, less focused on the developing world. The Huai Bang Sai (HBS) watershed in north-eastern Thailand is a less focused but an important catchment that significantly contributes to the water resources in Thailand. Therefore, this research presents the investigation results of the hydrologic utility of SbPPs and GbGPPs in the HBS watershed. The efficiency of nine SbPPs (including 3B42, 3B42-...
In this study, 28 climate models from the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Projec... more In this study, 28 climate models from the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) and 32 models from the sixth phase (CMIP6) have been evaluated for their ability to simulate large‐scale atmospheric circulations (using rainfall, wind fields, geopotential height, temperature, and moisture flux convergence) for the summer monsoon in Southeast Asia. Using a multi‐criteria decision making technique, models have been ranked based on 25 metrics which compare their performances with observation data. Results indicate a better representation of annual rainfall cycles as well as spatial pattern by CMIP6 models compared to CMIP5. Though majority of the models from both CMIPs show late onset and early retreat of the rainy season, CMIP6 GCMs simulate the onset, retreat, and the length of the rainy season closer to the observation. Large‐scale circulation patterns evaluated using spatial correlation and root mean square error (RMSE) show improvements in CMIP6 across all metrics, especially for the moisture flux convergence. Performances for large‐scale circulation are generally reflected in rainfall simulation; however, few models showed that better simulations of rainfall do not exclusively depend on their performance for large‐scale variables. Overall, CMIP6 models are found to be superior to CMIP5 models in simulating rainfall and large‐scale circulation, which is likely attributable to CMIP6 model's higher spatial resolutions, increased number of vertical levels, improved atmospheric and land surface parameterization, etc. Finally, subsets of optimal models from CMIP5 and CMIP6 that proved to be better at representing the summer monsoons in the study area are identified. These models are recommended to develop robust future projections that can be used for climate change impact and adaptation studies.
In the present study, the streamflow simulation capacities between the Soil and Water Assessment ... more In the present study, the streamflow simulation capacities between the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and the Hydrologic Engineering Centre-Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS) were compared for the Huai Bang Sai (HBS) watershed in northeastern Thailand. During calibration (2007–2010) and validation (2011–2014), the SWAT model demonstrated a Coefficient of Determination (R2) and a Nash Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) of 0.83 and 0.82, and 0.78 and 0.77, respectively. During the same periods, the HEC-HMS model demonstrated values of 0.80 and 0.79, and 0.84 and 0.82. The exceedance probabilities at 10%, 40%, and 90% were 144.5, 14.5, and 0.9 mm in the flow duration curves (FDCs) obtained for observed flow. From the HEC-HMS and SWAT models, these indices yielded 109.0, 15.0, and 0.02 mm, and 123.5, 16.95, and 0.02 mm. These results inferred those high flows were captured well by the SWAT model, while medium flows were captured well by the HEC-HMS model. It is noteworthy that the low...
Early warning is a key element for disaster risk reduction. However, the advances in generating h... more Early warning is a key element for disaster risk reduction. However, the advances in generating hazard risk information have not yet been incorporated into operational forecast systems and consequently, operational forecasts have not been integrated into decision making processes in order to reduce disaster risks. This article aims to design location-specific user-need based flood forecast products on different time scales for reducing flood risks. Using 1-10 days multiple weather ensemble (EPS) forecasts of the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts (ECMWF), integrating hydrological models, and combining these with GIS and local user needs, the decision support system (DSS) is designed to interpret, translate, and communicate science-based risk information into user-friendly early warning information products to assist emergency managers and decision makers. The DSS interface allows users to interactively specify the objectives and criteria that are relevant to a particular sit...
This study aims to project future sea-level rise (SLR) at the Phrachula Chomklao Fort (PCF) tide ... more This study aims to project future sea-level rise (SLR) at the Phrachula Chomklao Fort (PCF) tide gauge station in the Upper Gulf of Thailand (UGoT) using the outputs of 35 climate models under two greenhouse gas concentration scenarios: representative concentration pathway 4.5 (RCP4.5) and RCP8.5. The Linear Scaling method was found to be better than Variance Scaling and Quantile Mapping methods for removing biases in raw Global Circulation Models (GCMs) sea level data. Land subsidence, induced by excessive groundwater abstraction, was found to contribute significantly to SLR during the observed period the PCF gauging station; hence, the effects of land subsidence had to be removed from relative sea level before bias correction. The overall increase in SLR is projected to be 0.94–1.05 mm/year under RCP4.5 and 1.07–1.18 mm/year under RCP8.5 for the twenty-first century in the UGoT. The results suggest that future SLR due to climate change will not be as severe in the study region com...
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