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Publications by Erwin Weinmann

Books and Chapters

Nathan, RJ and Weinmann, PE (1999). Estimation of large to extreme floods: Book VI of Australian Rainfall and Runoff – A guide to flood estimation, Volume 1, Revised Edition 1999. Institution of Engineers, Australia.

Turner, G.K. and Weinmann, P.E. (1988). "Potential Impacts of the Greenhouse Effect on Irrigation in Northern Victoria", in "Greenhouse 87", Cambridge, Uni.Press.

Refereed Journal Papers

Jordan, P.W., Seed, A.W. and Weinmann, P.E. (2003). A stochastic model of radar measurement errors in rainfall accumulations at catchment scale. AMS Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 841–855.

Rahman, A., Weinmann, P.E., Hoang, T.M.T, Laurenson, E.M. (2002). Monte Carlo Simulation of flood frequency curves from rainfall. Journal of Hydrology, 256, 196-210.

Rahman, A., Weinmann, P.E. and Mein, R.G. (2002). The use of probability-distributed initial losses in design flood estimation. Australian Journal of Water Resources, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp 17-29.

Nathan, R.J., Weinmann, P.E. and Minty, L. (1999). Estimation of the annual exceedance probability of Probable Maximum Precipitation in South-East Australia. Australian Journal of Water Resources, Vol.3, No. 1, pp 143-153.

Bates, B.C., Rahman, A., Mein, R.G., and Weinmann, P.E., (1998). Climatic and physical factors that influence the homogeneity of regional floods in south-eastern Australia, Water Resources Research, Vol. 34, No. 12, pp 3369-3381.

Nathan, R.J. and Weinmann, P.E. (1995). The estimation of extreme floods - the need and scope for revision of our national guidelines. Australian Journal of Water Resources, Vol. 1, No 1, pp 40-50.

Nathan, R.J. and Weinmann, P.E. (1992). Practical aspects of at-site and regional flood frequency analyses. Australian Civil Engineering Transactions, CE34(3): 255-262.

Weinmann, P.E. and Laurenson, E.M. (1979). "Approximate Flood Routing Methods: A Review", Proc. ASCE, Journal of the Hydraulics Division, Vol. 105, No. HY12, Dec. 1979, pp 1521‑1536.

Refereed Conference papers

Weinmann, P.E. and Nathan, R.J. (2004). The continuing challenge of estimating extreme floods from extreme design storms. Accepted for presentation at the 6th International Conference. on Hydroscience and Engineering (ICHE-2004), May 30-June 3, Brisbane, Australia.

Nathan, R.J. and Weinmann, P.E. (2004). An improved framework for the characterization of extreme floods and for the assessment of dam safety. Accepted for presentation at Flood Risk Conference, London, June 2004.

Schreider, S., James, B., Seker, M. and Weinmann, P.E. (2003). Sensitivity and error propagation analysis for the Goulburn Simulation Model built by REALM. Proc. International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2003) Townsville, 14-17July 2003, Vol.4 1661-1666.

Ramchurn, A., Weinmann, P.E. and Codner, G.P. (2003). The role and impacts of on-farm storages in a NSW irrigation system, Engineers Australia, Proc. National Environmental Conference, Brisbane, 18-20 June 2003 (CD-ROM).

Nathan, R. J., Weinmann, P.E. and Hill, P. (2003). Use of a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the expected probability of Large to Extreme floods, Proc. 28th International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Nov 2003, Wollongong, NSW, 1.105-1.112.

Green, J.A.H., Weinmann, P.E., Laurenson, E.M., Nathan, R.J. and Kuczera, G. (2002). Estimation of storm arrival probabilities in the GSAM Inland Zone. 27th National Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, I. E. Aust., 20-23 May, Melbourne.

Rahman, A. and Weinmann, P.E. (2002). Flood estimation in Northern Australian catchments using Monte Carlo Simulation. 27th National Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, I. E. Aust., 20-23 May, Melbourne.

Rahman, A., Carroll, D. and Weinmann, P.E. (2002). Integration of Monte Carlo Simulation technique with URBS model for design flood estimation. 27th National Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, I. E. Aust., 20-23 May, Melbourne.

Schreider, S.Y., Weinmann, P.E., Codner, G.p. and Malanao, H.M. (2001). Integrated modelling system for sustainable water allocation planning. Proc. International Congress on Modelling and Simulation MODSIM01, Vol.3 – Socioeconomic Systems, pp 1207-1212.

Agho, K, Kuzcera, G., Green, J., Weinmann, P.E and Laurenson, E.M. (2000). Estimation of extreme rainfall exceedance probabilities: nondimensional stochastic storm transposition. Proc. ‘Hydro 2000’ – 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Perth. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, pp. 60-65.

Boughton, W., Srikanthan, R. and Weinmann, P.E. (2000). Benchmarking of a new design flood estimation system. Proc. ‘Hydro 2000’ – 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Perth. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, pp. 570-575.

Hill, P., Nathan, R.J., Lee, B. Crowe, P. and Weinmann, P.E. (2000). Estimation of extreme design rainfalls for South Australia using the CRC-FORGE method. Proc. ‘Hydro 2000’ – 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Perth. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, pp. 558-563.

Jordan, P., Seed, A. and Weinmann, P.E. (2000). Errors in radar measurements of rainfall. Proc. ‘Hydro 2000’ – 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Perth. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, pp. 421-426.

Nandakumar, N., Weinmann, P.E., Mein, R.G. and Nathan, R.J. (2000). Estimation of spatial dependence for the CRC-FORGE method. Proc. ‘Hydro 2000’ – 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Perth. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, pp. 553-557.

Rahman, A., Weinmann, P.E. and Mein, R.G. (2000). The probabilistic nature of initial loss and its impacts on design flood estimates. Proc. ‘Hydro 2000’ – 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Perth. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, pp. 71-76.

Weinmann, P.E., Rahman, A., Hoang, T.M.T., Laurenson, E.M. and Nathan, R.J. (2000). Monte Carlo simulation of flood frequency curves from rainfall. Proc. ‘Hydro 2000’ – 3rd International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Perth. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, pp. 564-569.

Boughton, W.C., Muncaster, S.H., Srikanthan, R. Weinmann, P.E. and Mein R.G. (1999). Continuous simulation for design flood estimation – a workable approach. Water 99 Joint Congress, Brisbane 6-8 July 1999, Institution of Engineers, Australia, pp 178 -183.

Muncaster, S.H., Weinmann, P.E. and Boughton, W.C. (1999). The representation of loss in continuous simulation models for design flood estimation. Water 99 Joint Congress, Brisbane 6-8 July 1999, Institution of Engineers, Australia, pp 184-189.

Hill, P., Nathan, R.J., Weinmann, P.E., Green J.H., and Karunaratne, T. (1999). Impact of the revised flood guidelines on the assessment of hydrologic risk for selected catchments. Water 99 Joint Congress, Brisbane 6-8 July 1999, Institution of Engineers, Australia, pp 277-283.

Weinmann, P.E., Nandakumar, N., Siriwardena, L., Mein, R.G. amd Nathan, R.J. (1999). Estimation of rare design floods for Victoria using the CRC-FORGE methodology. Water 99 Joint Congress, Brisbane 6-8 July 1999, Institution of Engineers, Australia, pp 284-289.

Jordan, P., Seed, A. and Weinmann, P.E. (1999). Effect of temporal and spatial variability of rainfall on design flood estimates.

Rahman, A., Weinmann, P.E. and Mein, R.G. (1999). At-site frequency analysis: LP3-product moment, GEV-L moment and GEV-LH moment procedures compared. Water 99 Joint Congress, Brisbane 6-8 July 1999, Institution of Engineers, Australia, pp 715-720.

Weinmann, P.E., Laurenson, E.M., Rahman, A. and Hoang, T.M.T. (1999). Improved design flood estimation through joint probability. Proceedings 2nd Inter-regional Conference on Environment-Water: Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Land Use and Water Management, Sept. 1999, Lausanne, Switzerland , (on CD-ROM).

Weinmann, P.E., Rahman, A., Hoang, T., Laurenson, E.M. and Nathan, R.J. (1998). A new modelling framework for design flood estimation, Hydrastorm 98, International Symposium on Stormwater Management and International Conference on Hydraulics in Civil Engineering, 27-30 Sep. 1998, Adelaide, pp 393-398.

Hill, P., Mein, R. and Weinmann, E. (1997). Development and testing of new design losses for South-East Australia. 24th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Proceedings, Auckland, NZ.

McConachy, F.L.N., Weinmann, P.E., Nathan, R.J. and Mein, R.G. (1997). Confidence limits for rainfall frequency curves in the extreme rainfall range. 24th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Proceedings, Auckland, NZ.

Mein, R. and Weinmann, E. (1997). Hydrologic research - hydrologic practice: the technology transfer process. 24th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Proceedings, Auckland, NZ.

Muncaster, S.H., Weinmann, P.E. and Mein, R.G. (1997). An application of continuous hydrologic modelling to design flood estimation. 24th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Proceedings, Auckland, NZ.

Rahman, A., Bates, B.C., Mein, R. and Weinmann, P.E. (1997). Towards a new regional flood frequency analysis procedure for South-East Australia. 24th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Proceedings, Auckland, NZ.

Weinmann, P.E. and Erlanger, P.D. (1996). Water supply risk and community losses - a drought management case study. Proc. 23rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 21-24 May 1996. IEAust. NCP 96/05, Vol. 1, pp 51-57.

McConachy, F.L.N., Weinmann, P.E., Nathan, R.J. and Mein, R.G. (1996). Estimation of extreme rainfalls for Victoria using Schaefer’s method. Proc. 23rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 21-24 May 1996. IEAust. NCP 96/05, Vol. 2, pp 701-702.

Nandakumar, N., Weinmann, P.E., Mein, R.G. and Nathan, R.J. (1996). Estimation of extreme rainfall for Victoria using the FORGE method. Proc. 23rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 21-24 May 1996. IEAust. NCP 96/05, Vol. 2, pp 699-700.

Rahman, A., Mein, R.G. and Weinmann, P.E. (1996). Identification of homogeneous regions in regional flood estimation based on L-moments of annual flood series. Proc. 23rd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Hobart, Australia, 21-24 May 1996. IEAust. NCP 96/05, Vol. 1, pp 117-123.

Weinmann, P.E. (1994). On the origin and variation of skewness in flood frequency distributions. Proc. Water Down Under 94, Adelaide, Australia, 21-25 November 1994. IEAust. NCP 94/15, Vol. 3, pp 265-270.

Weinmann, P.E., Nathan, R.J. and McConachy, F.L.L. (1994). Assessing spillway adequacy - a continuing challenge for hydrologists. Proc. Water Down Under 94, Adelaide, Australia, 21-25 November 1994. IEAust. NCP 94/15, Vol. 3, pp 271-277.

Nathan, R.J. Weinmann, P.E. and Gato, S.A. (1994). A quick method for estimating the probable maximum flood in SE Australia. Proc. Water Down Under 94, Adelaide, Australia, 21-25 November 1994. IEAust. NCP 94/15, Vol. 3, pp 229-234.

Erlanger, P.D., Poulton, D.C. and Weinmann, P.E. (1992). Development and application of an irrigation demand model based on crop factors. Inst. of Engineers, Australia, Nat. Conf. Publ. No. 92/11, 293-298.

Nathan, R.J. and Weinmann, P.E. (1991). "Application of At-Site and Regional Flood Frequency Analyses". Inst. of Engineers, Australia, Nat. Conf. Publ. No. 91/22, 769-774.

Hansen, W.R., Reed, G. and Weinmann, P.E. (1986). "Runoff Routing Parameters for Victorian Catchments", Institution of Engineers, Australia, Nat. Conf. Publ. 86/13.

Alexander, D.P., Collett, K.O., Hayden, S.R., Weinmann, P.E. and Keary, J.B. (1986), "A Regional Assessment of Water Resource Development Costs in Victorian River Basins", Institution of Engineers, Australia, Nat. Conf. Publ. 86/13.

Duncan, J.F., Weinmann, P.E. and Wellington, N.B. (1984). "Towards More Reliable Estimation of Energy Loss Parameters in Flow Profile Computations", Institution of Engineers, Australia, Nat. Conf. Publ. 84/7.

Ahern, P.A. and Weinmann, P.E. (1982). "Considerations for Design Flood Estimation Using Catchment Modelling", Institution of Engineers, Australia, Nat. Conf. Publ. 82/3.

Weinmann, P.E. and Laurenson, E.M. (1977). "Modern Methods of Flood Routing", Institution of Engineers, Australia, Nat. Conf. Publ. 77/5, pp.136‑140.

Other Conference papers:

Green, J.H., Weinmann, P.E., Kuzcera, G.A., Nathan, R.J. and Laurenson, E.M. (2002). Probabilities of extreme rainfall – past, present and future. ANCOLD 2002 Conference on Dams, 21-22 October, Adelaide.

Nathan, R.J., Weinmann, P.E. and Hill, P.I. (2002). Use of a Monte Carlo framework to characterize hydrologic risk. ANCOLD 2002 Conference on Dams, 21-22 October, Adelaide.

Weinmann, P.E. and Mein, R.G. (1999). How good are our design flood estimates? How can they be improved? Inaugural Victorian Flood Management Conference: Floodplains – Risks and Rewards. Wangaratta, Sept. 1999.

Hill, P.I., Nathan, R.J., Weinmann, P.E. and Green, J.H. (1999). Improved estimates of hydrologic risks for dams – impacts of the new flood guidelines. ANCOLD Conference on Dams, Jindabyne, NSW Australia, Nov. 1999.

Rahman, A., Bates, B.C., Mein, R.G., and Weinmann, P.E., (1998). Regional flood frequency analysis for ungauged basins in South-Eastern Australia, Poster Paper No. H21B-25, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 1988 Spring Meeting, Vol.79, No. 17, April 28, 1998 Supplement, pS79.

Smith, G.J. and Weinmann, P.E. (1990). "Position Paper on Victorian Surface Water Data Collection Networks". Proceedings of the AWRC Workshop on Surface Water Gauging Station Network Design. Australian Water Resources Council, Conference Series, No. 19.

Turner, G.K. and Weinmann, P.E. (1989). "Rural Water Supply Systems in Victoria" in Proceedings of the National Workshop on Planning and Management of Water Resource Systems: Risk and Reliability. Australian Water Resources Council, Conference Series No. 17.

Other Journal Papers and Articles:

Green, J.H., Weinmann, P.E., Kuzcera, G.A., Nathan, R.J. and Laurenson, E.M. (2002). Probabilities of extreme rainfall – past, present and future. ANCOLD Bulletin No. 122, Dec. 2002, 65-76.

Nathan, R.J., Weinmann, P.E. and Hill, P.I. (2002). Use of a Monte Carlo framework to characterize hydrologic risk. ANCOLD Bulletin No. 122, Dec. 2002, 55-64.

Rahman, A., Bates, B.C., Mein, R.G. and Weinmann, P.E. (2000). Discussion on: Regional Flood Estimation for Ungauged Catchments in South-East Australia. Australian Journal of Water Resources. 4(2):171-174.

Hill, P.I. Nathan, R.J., Weinmann, P.E., and Green, J.A.H. (2000). Improved estimates of hydrologic risks for dams - impacts of the new flood guidelines. ANCOLD Bulletin No.114, pp. 49-58.

Weinmann, P.E. (1997). Recent advances in estimating extreme design rainfalls. Water, Journal Australian Water and Wastewater Association, Vol.24, No.1, p 21.

Hill, P.I., Mein, R.G., and Weinmann, P.E. (1997). Towards reducing the uncertainty in design flood estimation. Water, Journal Australian Water and Wastewater Association, Vol.24, No.1, p 20.

Research Reports

Rahman, A., Weinmann, P.E., Hoang, T.M.T., Laurenson, E.M. and Nathan R.J. (2001). Monte Carlo simulation of flood frequency curves from rainfall. CRC for Catchment Hydrology, Technical Report 01/4, 63 pp.

Siriwardena, L. and Weinmann, P.E. (1999). Preparation of the CRC-FORGE design rainfall database for Victoria. CRC for Catchment Hydrology Working Document 99/1, 17pp.

Sriwardena, L., Nandakumar, N. and Weinmann, P.E. (1999). Rare design rainfalls from the CRC-FORGE database – User manual for the ‘CRCFORGE-EXTRACT’ program. CRC for Catchment Hydrology.

Rahman, A., Hoang, T., Weinmann, P. E., Laurenson, E. M. (1998). Joint Probability Approaches to Design Flood Estimation: A Review. Research Report 98/8, Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Monash University, Australia. 70 pp.

Siriwardena, L. and Weinmann, P.E. (1998). A technique to interpolate frequency curves between frequent events and probable maximum events. CRC for Catchment Hydrology, Report No. 98/9, Monash University, 58pp.

Nandakumar, N., Weinmann, P. E., Mein, R. G. and Nathan, R. J. (1997). Estimation of extreme rainfalls for Victoria using the CRC-FORGE method (for rainfall durations 24 to 72 hours). Report No. 97/4 CRC for Catchment Hydrology, 118 pp.

Hill, P.I., Maheepala, U.K., Mein, R.G., Weinmann, P.E. (1996). Empirical analysis of data to derive losses for design flood estimation in south-eastern Australia. CRC for Catchment Hydrology Report 96/5, Dept. of Civil Eng., Monash University

Hill, P.I., Mein, R.G., Weinmann, P.E. (1996). Testing of Improved Inputs for Design Flood Estimation in South-Eastern Australia. CRC for Catchment Hydrology Report 96/6, Dept. of Civil Eng., Monash University

Siriwardena, L. and Weinmann, P.E. (1996). Derivation of areal reduction factors for design rainfalls in Victoria for rainfall durations 18-120 hours. Report 96/4, CRC for Catchment Hydrology, 60pp.

Siriwardena, L. and Weinmann, E. (199). Development and testing of methodology to derive areal reduction factors for long duration rainfalls. Working Document No. 96/4, CRC for Catchment Hydrology.

Nathan, R.J. and Weinmann, P.E. (1993). Low flow atlas for Victorian streams. Drought management plan for Victoria's water resources - long term planning guidelines. Background Report L3. Dept of Conservation and Natural Resources, Victoria.

Weinmann, P.E. (1977). "Comparison of Flood Routing Methods for Natural Rivers", Report No. 2/1977, Dept. of Civil Eng., Monash University, 182 p. (M.Eng.Sc.Thesis).

CD-ROM

Nandakumar, N., Siriwardena, L., Weinmann, P.E., Mein, R.G. and Nathan, R.J. (2000). CRCFORGE-EXTRACT – Rare design rainfalls from the CRC-FORGE database for Victoria. Monash University, Bureau of Meteorology and CRC for Catchment Hydrology