Refereed Conference Papers

Cawley, A.M. and Kennan D.M. (1993). "Mathematical Modelling – An Effective Approach to Planning and Environmental Management for the Mariculture Industry", I.C.E.S., Statutory Meeting, Dublin, C.M. 1993/F: 21.

Zhang, J.Y. O’Connor, K.M. & Liang G.C. (1994). A software package for river flow forecasting based on the SMAR model. 5th International Conference on Hydraulic Eng. Software, Hydrosoft 94, Porto Carro, Greece (September 1994). Publ. in Hydraulic Engineering Software V, Vol. I, Water Resources and Distribution, eds. W.R. Blain & Katsifarakis, computational Mechanics Publications, Southhampton, pp. 163-170.

Farrell K. and Cawley, A.M. (1996). Hydrographic Tracking and Oil Weathering Model for Emergency Response in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland, Irish Marine Science 1995 Symposium, Galway University Press Ltd. 1996.

Tan, B.Q., O’Connor, K.M. and Z.C. Liu (1996). Application of a distributed form of the SMAR model. Proceedings of the "International Conference on Water Resources & Environment Research : Towards the 21st Century", October 29 - 31, Kyoto, Japan (at Heian Kaikan), Vol. 1, pp. 46 - 52.

Dolezal, F., Lipavsky, J. Kren, J., Novak, P., Simon, J., Kubat, J., Pycha, M., Cikanova, S. Klimova, P., Flasarova, V., Pokorny, E., (1998): The use of crop models for land valuation. In: "Multiple Objective Decision Making for Land, Water and Environmental Management", ed. by S. A. El-Swaify and D. S. Yakowitz, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp. 455-463

Dolezal, F., M. Janecek, J. Lhotsky, and J. Nemecek, (1998). Soil and water conservation policies in the Czech Republic. In: Soil and Water Conservation: Successes and Failures, ed. by T. Napier, S. M. Napier and J. Tvrdon. Soil and Water Conservation Society, Ankeny, Iowa, USA, pp. 485-501

Cawley, A.M. (1998). Simulating the Spread and Fate of Sea Lice (L. salmonis) Larvae from an Infested Atlantic Salmon Farm on the West Coast of Ireland, Computational Methods in Water Resources XII, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton 1998.

Tuteja, N.K. & Cunnane, C. 1998. A quasi physical snowmelt runoff modelling system for small catchments, Snow Hydrology Conference, Brownsville, Vermont, ASA. Hydrological Processes (Special issue on Snow Hydrology), expected date of publication is Summer 1999.

Cawley, A.M. and Keegan, B.M. (1999). Generation of a marine outfall suitability map using residence time and initial dilution numerical simulations, Coastal Engineering 99, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton 1999.

1998-1999

Cawley, A.M. & Keegan, B.M. 1999. Generation of a marine outfall suitability map using residence time and initial dilution numerical simulations. In Brebbia, C.A. & Anaghostopoulos, P. (eds.) Coastal Engineering 99, Southampton, Computational Mechanics publications/WIT Press, pp. 381-392. ISBN 1 85312 6861.

Dolezal, F., Lipavsky, J. Kren, J. Novak, P., Simon, J., Kubat, J., Pycha, M., Cikanova, S. Klimova, P., Flasarova, V. & Pokorny, E. 1998. The use of crop models for land valuation. In El-Swaify, S.A. & Yakowitz, D.S. (eds.), Multiple Objective Decision Making for Land, Water and Environmental Management. Boca Raton, FL, USA, Lewis Publishers, pp. 455-463.

Senaratne, S. and Cunnane, C. Weighted Least Squares Method – Improved Estimates when Index Flood Method used with Annual Maximum Floods, Proc. Int. Sympos. On Extremes of Extremes, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2000. Eds.: Arni Snorroson, Helda P. Finnsdottir & Marshall E. Moss. Int. Assoc. Hydrol. Sci. Publ. No. 271, pp. 333-340, 2002.

Senaratne, S. and Cunnane, C. Assessment of Model Error in Regression Estimates of Floods at an Ungauged site. Proc. Int. Wat. Res. Manag. Symp. At Davis, California, April 2000.Eds.: M.A. Marion and S.P. Simonovic. Int. Assoc. Hydrol. Sci. Publ. No. 272,
pp. 355-361, Dec. 2001

Goswami, M, O’Connor, K.M. and Shamseldin, A.Y. Structures and Performances of Five Rainfall-Runoff Models for Continuous River-Flow Simulation’, Proceedings of the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, June 2002, Lugano, Switzerland. Vol. 1, pp. 476-481.

Demissie, S.S, and Cunnane, C. Representation of climate change in flood frequency estimation. Proceedings of the Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology & Management of Water Resources, pp 290-301.

1999-2000

Muleta, Misgane K. & Cunnane, C. Sensitivity of extreme rainfall values in Ireland to climate change. In Water in the Celtic World: Managing resources for the 21st Century, Jones, J.A.A. et.al.(eds), British Hydrological Society Occasional Paper No. 11, 1999, pp. 75-83.

Shamseldin, A.Y., Ahmed, E.N. & O’Connor, K.M. A seasonally Varying Weighted Average Method for the Combination of River Flow Forecasts. Proceedings of the XXth Conference of the Danube countries on Hydrological Forecasting & Hydrological Bases of Water Management, Bratislava, the Slovak Republic. September 2000.

Shamseldin, A.Y., Ahmed, E.N. and O’Connor, K. M. (2000). ’ River Flow Forecast Combination Using the Multi-Layer Feed Forward Neural Network’. Conference Paper presented by A.Y. Shamseldin at the XXV Assembly of the European Geophysical Union (EGS), Nice, France, 25 th -29 th April, 2000.

2000-2001

Xiong, L., O’Connor, K.M and Goswami, M. (2001). Application of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in Flood Forecasting on a Karstic Catchment. Proceedings of the XXIX IAHR (International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research) Congress: 21st Century: The New Era for Hydraulic Research and its Applications: Theme C, on Forecasting and Mitigation of Water-related Disasters. Beijing, China, 2001 .

O’Connor, K.M., Goswami, M. Liang, G.C. Kachroo, R.K. & Shamseldin, Y.A., 2001. The Development of the Galway Real-Time River Flow Forecasting System (GFFS)’.  The proceedings of the 19th European Regional Conference of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage on "Sustainable Use of Land and Water" held in Brno and Prague, Czech Republic, June 2001. (available in CD).

Cawley, A.M. & Healy, M., 2000.   Evaluation of Waste Treatment Performance of Constructed Wetlands, Williamstown, Co. Galway.  National Hydrology Seminar: Flood Risk Management: Impacts on Planning and Development. Irish National Committees of the IHP and ICID National Hydrology Seminar, 21st November, pp 42-51 and at www.opw.ie/hydrology.

2001-2002

Senaratne, S. and Cunnane, C. Weighted Least Squares Method – Improved Estimates when Index Flood Method used with Annual Maximum Floods, Proc. Int. Sympos. On Extremes of Extremes, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2000. Eds.: Arni Snorroson, Helda P. Finnsdottir & Marshall E. Moss. Int. Assoc. Hydrol. Sci. Publ. No. 271, pp. 333-340, 2002.

Senaratne, S. and Cunnane, C. Assessment of Model Error in Regression Estimates of Floods at an Ungauged site. Proc. Int. Wat. Res. Manag. Symp. At Davis, California, April 2000.Eds.: M.A. Marion and S.P. Simonovic. Int. Assoc. Hydrol. Sci. Publ. No. 272,  pp. 355-361, Dec. 2001

Cawley, A.M.(Hydro-Environmental Ltd.) & Cunnane, C., 2001.  A Flood Study of a Tidally Affected Town.  National Hydrology Seminar: Flood Risk Management: Impacts on Planning and Development.  Irish National Committees of the IHP and ICID National Hydrology Seminar 2001, 20th November, pp 97-107 and at www.opw.ie/hydrology.

Cawley, A. McDermott, D. and Kilcullen, E. Predicting the hydrological impact of infill development on a karst wetland system at Oranmore, Co. Galway. Proceedings of the Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology & Management of Water Resources , July 2002, pp. 115-121.

Goswami, M., O’Connor, K.M., and Shamseldin A.Y . Rainfall-runoff modelling of two Irishcatchments (One Karstic and one non-Karstic). Proceedings of the Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology & Management of Water Resources, pp. 151-164. (July 2002).

Xiong,L., O'Connor, K.M. and Goswami, M., 2001. The application of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in flood forecasting on a karstic catchment.  The proceedings of the XXIX IAHR Congress, held in Beijing, China, September 2001. Theme C: Forecasting and Mitigation of Water-related disasters, pp.29-35, Tsinghuya University Press, Beijing.

Goswami, M, O’Connor, K.M. and Shamseldin, A.Y. Structures and Performances of Five Rainfall-Runoff Models for Continuous River-Flow Simulation’, Proceedings of the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, Lugano, Switzerland, June 2002.  Vol. 1, pp. 476-481.

Goswami, M., O'Connor, K.M. and Shamseldin, A.Y.,2002.  Comparative performance evaluation of rainfall-runoff models, six of black-box type and one of conceptual type from the Galway Flow Forecasting System (GFFS) Package, applied on two Irish catchments.  The proceedings of the Conference of the XXVII General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, held in Nice, France (April 2002).

Bhattarai, K.P. An investigation of the use of partial L-moments for analysing censored flood samples. Proceedings of the Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology & Management of Water Resources, pp. 302-311.

Demissie, S.S, and Cunnane, C. Representation of climate change in flood frequency estimation. Proceedings of the Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology & Management of Water Resources, pp 290-301.

Cunnane, C. and Barrins, J. (Eds.)Celtic Water in European Framework – Pointing the way toQuality. Proc. 3rd Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology & Management of Water Resources, 326 p, July 2002.

2002-2003

Demissie, S.S. 2002. Assessing the reliability of water yield of a river basin. Proceedings of the National Hydrology Seminar on water resource management: sustainable supply and demand, Irish National Committees of the IHP and ICID, 19th November, pp. 82-92 and at www.opw.ie/hydrology.

Shamseldin, A.Y. & O’Connor, K.M. 2003. A consensus real-time river flow forecasting model for the Blue Nile River. In " Water Resources Systems – Hydrological Risk, Management and Development" (2 vols). Gunter Bloschl, Stewart Franks, Michio Kummagi, Katumi Musiake & Dan Rosbjerg (eds). IAHS publ. 281, pp. 82-89.

Bhattarai K, and O’Connor, K.M. (2003). The Effects Arterial Drainage on River Runoff: in the Irish Context. Conference paper presented at the 13th Irish Environmental Researchers Colloquium, ENVIRON 2003, NUI Galway, Ireland, 8th - 10th January, 2003. Abstract on page 26 of proceedings.

2003-2004

Cawley, A.M. and Cunnane, C. "Comment on Estimation of Greenfield Runoff Rates", Proc. Irish National Hydrology Seminar, 2003, pp. 29-43. Published by Office of Public Works, Dublin and also at www.opw.ie/hydrology.

Bhattarai K.P. and K.M. O’Connor (2004). The effects over time of an Arterial Drainage Scheme on the Flood Magnitude / Return Period relationships. Conference Paper presented by Keshav P. Bhattarai at the " International Conference on River/Catchment Dynamics: Natural Process and Human Impacts". 15th-20th May 2004, Solsona, (Catalonia, Spain). [A full paper based on this presentation has since been submitted for publication in the IAHS ’Red Book Series’].

Goswami, M., O'Connor, K.M., Bhattarai, K.P. and Shamseldin, A.Y. (2003). Real-time river flow forecasting for the Brosna catchment in Ireland using eight updating models.  The proceedings of the International Conferences on Advances in Flood Forecasting in Europe, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, held March 2003.

O'Connor, K.M., Goswami, M., Bhattarai, K.P. and Shamseldin, A.Y., 2003. A comparison of the lead-time discharge forecasts of the 'Perfect' and 'Naive-AR' Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) Input Scenarios, to assess the value of having good QPFs.  The proceedings of the ESF LESC Exploratory Workshop on "Hydrological Risk: recent advances in peak river flow modelling prediction and real-time forecasting.  Assessment of the impacts of land-use and climate changes', held in Bologna, Italy, October 2003.

Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M. (2004). Continuous rainfall – runoff modeling of the tenga river in the Kameng basin of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Proceedings of the Conference on ’ Large dams and Hydropower Development’, 26-28 May 2004, New Delhi, organized bt the Indian Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Chap III, pp 21-35.

2004-2005 

Cawley, A.M.(Hydro Environmental Ltd.), Fitzpatrick, J.(ESBI), Cunnane, C. & Sheridan, T.(Met Eireann) 2005. A selection of extreme flood events - the Irish experience.  National Hydrology Seminar: Understanding & Managing Hydrological Extremes.  Irish National Committees of the IHP and ICID National Hydrology Seminar 2005, 15th November, pp 14-25 and at www.opw.ie/hydrology.

Keshav Bhattarai (Fehily Timoney & Company & NUI Galway) 2005. Flood frequency analysis of Irish river flow data using variants of L-moments. National Hydrology Seminar: Understanding and Managing Hydrological Extremes.  Irish National Committees of the IHP and ICID National Hydrology Seminar 2005, 15th November, pp 46-55 and at www.opw.ie/hydrology.

Cunnane, C. & Brogan, L. 2005.  Low flows and low flow distributions for Ireland.  National Hydrology Seminar: Understanding & Managing Hydrological Extremes.  Irish National Committees of the IHP and ICID National Hydrology Seminar 2005, 15th November, pp. 85-92 and at www.opw.ie/hydrology.

Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M., 2005.  Application of a conceptual rainfall-runoff simulation model to three European catchments characterised by non-conservative system behaviour.  The proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrological perspectives for sustainable development, held in Roorkee, India , vol. 1, pp. 117-130.

Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M., 2005.  Application of Artificial Neural Networks for river flow simulation in three French catchments.  The proceedings of the Fourth Inter Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of water resources on: Water in Celtic Countries: Quantity, Quality and Climate Variability, held in Guimarães, Portugal, July 11-14, 2005 (Available in CD).

Bhattarai, K.P. and O'Connor, K.M. (2005).  The effects over time of an Arterial Drainage Scheme on the flood magnitude/return period relationships. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Geomorphological Processes and Human Impacts in River Basins, held on 25th-20th May, 2004, in Solsona, Catalonia, Spain); IAHS "Red Book Series", IAHS publ. 299, 67-74.

2006-2007

Goswami, M. and O’Connor, K.M., 2006.  Application of data-driven ANN and k-NN techniques for lead-time flow forecasting for two Irish catchments.  Paper presented at the Session of ’Hydroinformatics: Computational intelligence and technological developments in water science applications’ of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly held in Vienna, Austria, April 2-7, 2006.  The abstract available in the CD: Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 8, 2006, ISSN: 1029-7006, published by the EGU.

Bhattarai, K.P. and O'Connor, K.M.

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