Conference Presentations

R.K. Kachroo, G.C. Liang & K.M. O'Connor (1986).  Application of the linear perturbation model (LPM) to flood routing on the Mekong River.  Presented by K.M. O'Connor at the Workshop  on Recent Developments in Flood Routing held during the 2nd IAHS Scientific Assembly, Budapest, Hungary, July 1986.

Abdo, G.M. Liang, G.C. Bruen, M. Kachroo, R.K. and O'Connor, K.M. (1992). River Flow Forecasting on the Nile. Conference on "Protection and Development of the Nile and other Major Rivers. Paper presented by G.M. Abdo, February 1992.

Khadr, W.M., Liang, G.C., Bruen, M., Kachroo, R.K. and K.M. O'Connor (1992).  Flow Routing for River Nile Downstream of the High Aswan Dam.  International Conference on ’ Protection and Development of the Nile and other Major Rivers’, Cairo, Egypt, February 1992.   Paper presented by W.M. Khadr.

Dolezal, F., R. D. Mehta, and D. McDermott, (1993): A field test of the unit-gradient variant of the instantaneous profile method in a wet, stony, heterogeneous soil. Presented at the XVII General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Wiesbaden, Germany, 3-7 May, 1993.

Martin, J.V. (OPW) & Cunnane, C., (1994). River flow in Ireland – characteristics and measurement. Irish Agmet Society Conference "The Balance of Water – Present and Future", Trinity College, Dublin .

Cawley, A.M., (1994). Application of Monthly Water Balance Models to Irish Catchments, Irish Agmet Society Conference "The Balance of Water – Present and Future", Trinity College Dublin.

Kachroo, R.K. (1994). Postgraduate hydrology, education in Africa – experience of the University of Dar-es-Salaam. UNESCO workshop on Postgraduate Education in Hydrology, Prague. In "Past, present and future of postgraduate education in hydrology"; Proceedings of the Prague (Unesco) Workshop on Postgraduate Education in Hydrology (29-31 August, 1994), Ed. by H. Salz, UNESCO IHP-V Technical Documents in Hydrology, No. 4, 1996

O’Connor, K.M. (1994). Postgraduate hydrology education in Galway. UNESCO Workshop on Postgraduate Education in Hydrology, Prague. In "Past, present and future of postgraduate education in hydrology"; Proceedings of the Prague (Unesco) Workshop on Postgraduate Education in Hydrology (29-31 August, 1994), Ed. by H. Salz, UNESCO IHP-V Technical Documents in Hydrology, No. 4, 1996

O’Connor, K.M. (1995). River Flow Forecasting – The Galway Experience. Invited Paper for Symposium on River Flow Forecasting & Disaster Relief, Haikou City, China. Published (in Chinese) in the proceedings of the symposium, in 1997.

Johnston, P. & Dolezal, F., (1995): The dual-porosity unsaturated seepage through the overburden of the karstic aquifers in western Ireland. Poster presented at the International Conference on "Groundwater Quality: Remediation and Protection" (GQ 95), Prague, Czech Republic, 15-18 May 1995, jointly convened by Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, and International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.

Elmahi, Abdalla H.A. & Kieran M. O’Connor (1996). The application of the multiple-input simple linear model and the multiple-input linear perturbation model to flow forecasting on the River Nile. Presented at the 4th Nile 2002 Conference, Kampala, Uganda , in February, 1996, and published in the proceedings of that symposium.

Jain, S.K., Damaskova, H., Janecek, M., Dolezal, F. & Cawley, A.M., (1998). Water balance, water quality and soil erosion on agricultural lands in the foothill zone of the Bohemo-Moravian Highland. Presented at the International ERB Conference "Catchment Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes in a Changing Environment", Liblice, Czech Republic. To be published in UNESCO’s Technical Documents in Hydrology series.

Xiong, L. and O’Connor, K. M., (2000). ’ A DEM-based distributed rainfall-runoff model and its application to a small experimental watershed’; Workshop Paper presented by L. Xiong at the International Francqui Chair Workshop: the future of distributed hydrological modelling; April 12 th -15th, 2000. Leuven, Belgium.

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.

Shamseldin, A.Y., Ahmed, E.N. and O’Connor, K.M. (2000). ’ A Seasonally Varying Weighted Average Method for the Combination of River Flow Forecasts’. Conference Paper presented by A.Y. Shamseldin at the XX ^th Conference of the Danube Countries on ’ Hydrological Forecasting and Hydrological Bases of Water Management’, Bratislava, The Slovak Republic, 4-8 September 2000.

Xiong Lihua, O’Connor K M., Goswami M. (2001). Application of the artificial neural network (ANN) in flood forecasting on a karstic catchment. Conference Paper presented by Lihua Xiong. Proceedings of the XXIX Congress of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research IAHR (Beijing, China, September 16-21, 2001).

O’Connor, K.M., Goswami, M., Liang, G.C., Kachroo, R.K., and Shamseldin, Y.A., (2001).  ’ The Development of the ’Galway Real-Time River Flow Forecasting System (GFFS)’.  Paper presented by K.M. O'Connor at the 19th European Conference on "Sustainable Use of Land and Water" of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), Brno & Prague, Czech Republic, 4-8 June , 2001.

Goswami, M, K.M. O’Connor and A.Y. Shamseldin, (2002b).  ’ Structures and Performances of Five Rainfall-Runoff Models for Continuous River-Flow Simulation’; In ’ Integrated Assessment and Decision Support’, Conference Paper presented by K.M. O’Connor, In: Proceedings of the 1st Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, (held from 24 ^th to 27 ^th June, 2002, at the University of Lugano, Switzerland).  Vol. 1, pp. 476-481.

Goswami, M, K.M. O’Connor and A.Y. Shamseldin, (2002c).  ’ Rainfall-runoff modelling of two Irish catchments (one Karstic and one non-Karstic)’.  Conference Paper presented by M. Goswami.  Proceedings of the Third Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water Resources, ’Celtic Water in a European Framework’, (held at NUI, Galway, 8th-10th July, 2002), pp 151-164.

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 ’Naïve-AR’ quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) input scenarios, to asses the value of having good QPFs.  Workshop Paper presented by K.M. O’Connor at the ESF LESC Exploratory Workshop held at Bologna, Italy, October 24-25 2003 and included in the proceedings of the workshop.

Goswami, M., O'Connor. K.M., Bhattarai, K.P and Shamseldin, A.Y.(2003). Assessing the performance of eight real-time updating models and procedures for the Brosna catchment.  Poster presentation by K.M. O'Connor at the International Conference on 'Advances in Flood Forecasting in Europe' held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-5 March, 2003. (This poster was subsequently revised and expanded into a HESS Journal paper of the same title, by the same authors, published in 2005).

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

Bhattarai, K.P. and O'Connor, K.M. (2004).  The effects over time of an Arterial Drainage Scheme on the Flood Magnitude/Return Period relationships.  Conference paper presented by K.P. Bhattarai at the "International Conference on River/Catchment Dynamics: Natural Process and Human Impacts", 15th-20th May, Solsona, (Catalonia, Spain).

O’Connor, K.M., Goswami. M., and K.P. Bhattarai (2004).  The Galway River Flow Modelling and Forecasting System (GFMFS) Models.  Workshop Paper presented by K.M. O’Connor at the 4th MOPEX Workshop, organised by Cemagref (in association with NOAA; National Weather Service of the U.S.) in ENGREF, Paris, 1-3 July 2004.  (PowerPoint presentation available on the Cemagref MOPEX web-site;   www.cemagref.fr/Informations/Actualites/colloque/Mopexweb/MOPEXParisWorkshop.htm , as “ GFMFS”).

O’Connor, K.M., Goswami, M., and K.P. Bhattarai (2004).  Methods for combining the outputs of different rainfall-runoff models (MOCTs): Possible applications for MOPEX.  Workshop Paper, presented by K.M. O’Connor at the 4th MOPEX (Model Parameter Estimation Experiment) Workshop, organised by Cemagref (associated with NOAA; National Weather Service of the U.S.) in ENGREF, Paris, 1-3 July 2004.  (PowerPoint Presentation available on Cemagref MOPEX web-site);

      www.cemagref.fr/Informations/Actualites/colloque/Mopexweb/MOPEXParisWorkshop.htm ).

Goswami, M. and O'Connor, K.M. (2004). Continuous rainfall-runoff modelling of the Tenga river in the Kameng basin of Arunachal Pradesh, India.  Conference Paper presented by M. Goswami.  In the Proceedings of the Conference on 'Large Dams and Hydropower Development', 26-28 May, 2004, New Delhi, organized by the Indian Central Board of Irrigation and Power, Ch.III, pp 21-35.

Cunnane, C. & Brogan, L.. (2005).  Suitability of two parameter distributions for low flows in Ireland and Wales.   Presentation made at Fourth InterCeltic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water held in University of Minho, Guimares, Portugal, July 2005.

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.  Conference paper presented by M. Goswami at the International Conference on "Hydrological Perspectives for Sustainable Development (HYPESD-2005)" held at I.I.T., Roorkee, India, 23rd-25th February, 2005.

Goswami, M. and O'Connor, K.M. (2005).  Application of artificial neural networks for flow simulation in three French catchments.   Conference paper presented by M. Goswami at the Fourth Inter-Celtic Colloquium on Hydrology and Management of Water Resources on : Water in Celtic Countries: Quantity, Quality and Climate Variability, Universidade de Minho. Guimaraes, Portugal, 11th-14th July, 2005.

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.  Conference Presentation by M. Goswami at the Session on ’Hydroinformatics:  Computational intelligence and technological developments in water science applications’ of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 02-07 April  2006.  Conference abstracts on CD,  ISSN: 1029-7006:  ’Geophysical Research Abstracts’ Vol. 8, 2006.

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