WMS:References

Publications Involving WMS

Smemoe, C.M., Nelson, E.J., Zundel, A.K., and Miller, A.W. (2007). “Demonstrating Floodplain Uncertainty Using Flood Probability Maps,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 43(2), 359-371.

Smemoe, C.M., Nelson, E.J., Zundel, A.K., and Miller, A.W. (2006). “Floodplain Risk Analysis Using Annual Exceedance Probability Maps,” Hydrological Science and Technology, 22(1-4), 185-196.

Ertuck, A., et al. (2006). "Application of Watershed Modeling System (WMS) for Integrated Management of a Watershed in Turkey." Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering, 41(9), 2045-2056.

Smemoe, C.M., Nelson, E.J., and Zhao, B.I. (2004). “Spatial averaging of land use and soil properties to develop the physically-based green and ampt parameters for HEC-1,” Environmental Modelling and Software, 19(6), 525-535.

Smemoe, C.M., “Floodplain Risk Analysis Using Flood Probability and Annual Exceedance Probability Maps,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Brigham Young University, April 2004. [1]

Green, Jonathan I., and E. James Nelson, “Calculation of Time of Concentration for Hydrologic Design and Analysis Using Geographic Information System Vector Objects,” Journal of Hydroinformatics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 75-81, April 2002. [2]

Jones, Norman L., Stephen G. Wright, and David R. Maidment, 1990, "Watershed delineation with triangle based terrain models," ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Vol. 116, No. 10, Oct. 1990, pp 1232-1251.

Nelson, E. James, Norman L. Jones, and A. Woodruff Miller, "An algorithm for precise drainage basin delineation," ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, March, 1994, pp. 298-312.

Nelson, E. James, and Norman L. Jones, "Reducing Elevation Roundoff Errors in Digital Elevation Models," Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 169, pp. 37-49, 1995.

Nelson, E. James, Norman L. Jones, and Russell J. Berrett, "Adaptive Tessellation Method for Creating TINs from GIS Data," ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1999.

Nelson, E. James, Glenn E. Moglen, and Larry Arneson, "Building a GIS Database to Support Hydrologic Modeling at the Maryland State Highway Administration," Proceedings of the 78th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 10-14, 1999, published on CD ROM.

Nelson, E. James., A. Woodruff Miller, and Eric Dixon, "Mud Canyon Fire: A Hydrologic Evaluation of Rainfall Runoff from a Burned Watershed," International Journal of Wildland Fire, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000.

Noman, Nawajish S., E. James Nelson, and Alan K. Zundel, “A Review of Automated Flood Plain Delineation from Digital Terrain Models,” ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Nov/Dec 2001, Vol. 127, No. 6, pp. 394-402.

Noman, Nawajish S., E. James Nelson, and Alan K. Zundel, “An Improved Process for Floodplain Delineation from Digital Terrain Models,” ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, accepted for publication, estimated publication in September 2003.

Noman, Nawajish S., and E. James Nelson, “ArcGIS Hydro Data Model – Chapter 5 River Channels,” ESRI Press, 2002, 31 pp.

Omer, Creighton R., E. James Nelson, and Alan K. Zundel, “Impact of Varied Data Resolution on Hydraulic Modeling and Flood Plain Delineation,” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol. 39, No. 2, April 2003.

Model Documentation Publications

Model documentation files are included as PDF files in the "docs" subdirectory where WMS is installed.

Secondary Publications (methodologies used in WMS)

Band, L.E., 1986, "Topographic partition of watersheds with digital elevation models", Water Resources Research, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 15-24.

Clough, R.W., and J.L. Tocher, 1965, "Finite element stiffness matrices for analysis of plates in bending," Proc. Conf. Matrix Methods in Structural Mechanics, Wright-Patterson A.F.B., pp. 515-545.

Franke, R., 1982, "Scattered data interpolation: tests of some methods," Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 38, Nol 157, pp. 181-200.

Garbrecht, J., and L.M. Martz, 1993, "Case application of the automated extraction of drainage network and subwatershed characteristics from digital elevation models by DEDNM," AWRA Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems and Water Resources, March 1993, pp. 221-229.

Grayman, W. M., R. M. Males, and J. J. Harris, 1982, "Use of integrated spatial data and modeling capabilities for urban runoff analyses," International Symposium on Urban Hydrology, Hydraulics and Sediment Control, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, July 27-29.

Jenson, S.K. and J.O.Domingue, 1988, "Extracting topographic structure from digital elevation data for geographic system analysis", Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Vol. 54, No. 11, pp 1593-1600.

Lawson, C. L., 1977, "Software for C1 surface interpolation," Mathematical Software III, J. R. Rice, ed., Academic Press, New York, pp.161-194.

Lee, D. T., and B. J. Schacter, 1980, "Two algorithms for constructing a Delauney triangulation," International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 3 pp. 219-242.

Maidment, D. R., ed., 2002, "Arc Hydro: GIS for Water Resources," ESRI Press, Redlands, CA.

Maidment, D. R., ed., 1993, "Handbook of Hydrology," McGraw-Hill.

Martz, L.M., and J. Garbrecht, 1993, "DEDNM: A software system for the automated extraction of channel network and watershed data from raster digital elevation models," AWRA Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems and Water Resources, March 1993, pp. 211-220.

Peucker, T.K., and D.H. Douglas, 1975, "Detection of surface-specific points by local parallel processing of discrete terrain elevation data," Computer Graphkcs and Image Processing, Vol. 4, pp. 375-387.

Shepard, D., 1968, "A two dimensional interpolation function for irregularly spaced data," Proceedings of the 23rd National Conference ACM, pp. 517-523.

Smith, R. E. and Goodrich, D. C. (2000). “Model for rainfall excess patterns on randomly heterogeneous areas.” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 5(4), 355-362.

Southard, D.A., 1990, "Piecewise planar surface models from sampled data", Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, pp. 667-680.

Watson, D.F., 1981, "Computing the n-dimensional Delauney tesselation with application to Voronoi polytopes," The Computer Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 167-172.