
3rd International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS-3)
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences series
15–30 Nov 2018
Welcome from the Chair
Conference Title: Hydrological Extremes and Related Risk and Uncertainty
We are pleased to welcome you to the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS-3), which will be held online, promoted by the open access journal Water https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water.
After the first two International Electronic Conferences on Water Sciences (ECWS-1 and ECWS-2) successfully addressed this vitally important subject, we recognized the need for hosting a third conference, aiming at deepen the discussion on the issues of hydrological extremes, i.e., floods and droughts and the associated risk and uncertainty.
Global climate change and variability is probable to affect the frequency and severity of extreme hydrological events (e.g. floods and droughts). It is necessary to develop models and methodologies for better understanding, forecasting, hazard prevention of weather induced extreme hydrological events and assessment of disaster risk. The ECWS-3 considers extreme hydrological events that lead to hydrological hazards induced by severe weather and climate change and the related risk and uncertainty. Assessing the risk and uncertainty of hydrological extremes is a crucial step towards decision making. Decision makers are interested in determining and quantifying risk and uncertainty of existing and proposed hydrotechnical projects.
The ECWS-3 welcomes contributions that develop novel methodologies to model the hydrological processes within the context of risk and uncertainty analysis in the following topics/sections (Responsible Conference Committee member):
- Advances in flood estimation and modeling (Prof. J. Szolgay)
- Hydrological drought methods and modeling approaches (Prof. A. Cancelliere)
- Uncertainty and hydrological extremes (Prof. G. Di Baldassarre and Prof. G. Aronica)
- Risk and engineering design of hydrotechnical structures and projects (Prof. Luis Garrote)
- Impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes (Prof. K. Banasik)
- Applications of geoinformation systems in hydrological extremes (Dr. L. Vasiliades)
- Socio-economic assessment of hydrological extremes (Prof. M.-C. Llasat-Botija)
Conference Chair
Prof. Dr. Athanasios G. Loukas Hydrology and Water Resources, Laboratory of Hydrology and Aquatic Systems Analysis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, 38334 Volos, Greece |
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Call for Contribution
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS-3) will be held from 15 to 30 November 2018 online . This event enables the researchers of research field to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues without the need to travel. All proceedings will be published on the conference homepage in open access format.
Through this event, we aim to cover the following topics:
- Advances in flood estimation and modeling
- Hydrological drought methods and modeling approaches
- Uncertainty and hydrological extremes
- Risk and engineering design of hydrotechnical structures and projects
- Impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes
- Applications of geoinformation systems in hydrological extremes
- Socio-economic assessment of hydrological extremes
The conference will be completely free of charge—both to attend and for scholars to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. Selected papers presented in ECWS-3 will be published in a Special Issue of journal Water undergone a full peer-review (ISSN 2073-4441; Impact Factor: 2.069 (2017) with a 20% discount on the APCs; ECWS-3 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having the concern or expenditure of travel — all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference and present your latest work.
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 15 October 2018 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 31 January 2019. The conference itself will be held 15-30 November 2018.
We hope you will be able to join this exciting event and support us in making it a success. ECWS-3 is organized and sponsored by MDPI, a scholarly open access publisher based in Basel, Switzerland.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the submission procedure and preparation of a full presentation, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors".
Conference Chairs

Hydrology and Water Resources, Laboratory of Hydrology and Aquatic Systems Analysis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, 38334 Volos, Greece; and Hydrology and Water Resources, Laboratory of Hydraulic Works and Environmental Management, Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr. Athanasios G. Loukas is Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources, Laboratory of Hydrology and Aquatic Systems Analysis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, 38334 Volos, Greece and Hydrology and Water Resources, Laboratory of Hydraulic Works and Environmental Management, Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 21 Thessaloniki, Greece
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Conference Committee

River Basin Management and Hydraulic Works, Civil Engineering Department, Engineering University of Messina, Contrada Di Dio, 98166 Villaggio S. Agata, Messina, Italy
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
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Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villav. 16, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Department of Land and Water Resources, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Bratislava, Slovakia
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Department of Civil Engineering Hydraulics and Energy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Department of Applied Physics, University of Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly , 38334 Volos, Greece
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Invited Speakers

Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Dr. Luis Mediero is a professor on Hydraulic Engineering at the ‘ETSI de Caminos, Canales y Puertos’ of ‘Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’. He teaches subjects related to Hydraulic Engineering at the ‘Graduate on Civil Engineering’, ‘MsC on Civil Engineering’ and ‘MsC on Civil Engineering Systems’. In addition, he also gives lectures in the ‘International MsC on dam management and safety’, organized by the Spanish Committee on Large Dams, and in the ‘MsC on Water Resource Management’ organized by Aqualogy. He belongs to the UPM consolidated research group on ‘Hydroinformatics and water management’. His main research lines are on statistical hydrology, non-stationarity time series, rainfall-runoff modelling, climate change, dam safety, reservoir management and water resources. He has been the principal investigator (PI) of one national project (POSEIDON) and one European project (SAFERPLACES). He has been also involved in various national projects (MODEX and E-Virtual) and European projects (DRIHM, FLASH and BASE).
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Centre for the Assessment of Natural Hazards and Proactive Planning of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA),
Laboratory of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of NTUA
Prof. George Tsakiris is the director of the Centre for the Assessment of Natural Hazards and Proactive Planning of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and director of the Laboratory of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of NTUA. He has PhD from the Civil Engineering Dept. of Southampton University, U.K. He is a full Professor since 1988 teaching engineering hydrology, hydraulic works and water resources management. His research interests (among others) include topics of hydro-meteorological extremes (droughts and floods), non-stationary hydrological processes, and adaptive water resources management under uncertainty. He has completed more than 50 European and national research projects, most of which as scientific coordinator. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers in international scientific journals and a large number of papers in Proceedings of international and national conferences. He is the author/co-author of five textbooks in Greek and one
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Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Submit New Abstract" function once logged into system.
- Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 15 October 2018.
- The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Water Science. All authors will be notified by 19 October 2018 about the acceptance of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his/her manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 31 October 2018.
- The manuscripts and presentations will be available on https://ecws-3.sciforum.net/ for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 15-30 November 2018.
- After the conference, the Conference Committee will select papers that may be included for publication in the Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Water Science" by the Open Access Journals Water (ISSN 2073-4441; IF=2.069; CODEN: WATEGH) with a 20% discount off the Article Processing Charge(APC).
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the Manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting, please contact the conference organizer at [email protected] to get to know more about the procedure. This is an unique way of presenting your paper and discuss it with peers from all over the world. Make a difference and join us for this project!
Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login by registering and logging in to this website.
Accepted File Formats
- MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Electronic Conference on Materials Science Microsoft Word template file (see download below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
- Electronic Conference on Water Science MS Word Template File
- References: References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including tables and legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. Citations and References in Supplementary files are permitted provided that they also appear in the main text and in the reference list. In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], [1–3] or [1,3]. For embedded citations in the text with pagination, use both parentheses and brackets to indicate the reference number and page numbers; for example [5] (p. 10). or [6] (pp. 101–105). The Reference list should include the full title as recommended by the ACS style guide. The style file for endnote, MDPI.ens, can be found at https://endnote.com/downloads/style/mdpi
- Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The PubMed/MEDLINE standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and all email addresses. At least one author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section. Please read the criteria to qualify for authorship.
- Figures, Schemes and Tables: All figure files should be separately uploaded during submission. Figures and schemes must be provided at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). All Figure file formats are accepted. However, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF files are preferred. Materials can publish multimedia files in articles or as supplementary materials. Please get in touch with the Editorial office for further information. All Figures, Schemes and Tables should also be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.). All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and a caption. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but in no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables. For multi-panel figures, the file must contain all data in one file. For tips on creating multi-panel figures, please read the helpful advice provided by L2 Molecule. Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). Full color graphics will be published free of charge.
For further enquiries please contact ECWS-3 2018 Secretary at [email protected].
Authors wishing to publish their papers are asked to abide to the following rules:
- Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.
- Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
- Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.
- Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
- Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is not tolerated.
- Republishing content that is not novel is not tolerated (for example, an English translation of a paper that is already published in another language will not be accepted).
- If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken. Please refer to our policy regarding publication of publishing addenda and corrections.
- Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
- Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
List of accepted submissions (31)
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sciforum-021837 | United States Bureau of Reclamation Type IX Baffled Chute Spillways, A New Examination of Accepted Design Methodology Using CFD and Monte-Carlo Simulations, Part I | , |
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So-called “Type IX” chute spillways with impact baffle blocks have been used successfully around the globe for over 50 years. A key advantage of the chute spillway is the elimination of a costly stilling basin allowing for a more simplistic outlet works design. The current design process is based upon physical models developed in the 1950s and observation of completed projects over the last 50 years. The design procedure is empirical and provides the designer with a range of workable layouts, baffle heights, and baffle spacing. Unfortunately, this approach may not be optimal. This first study of a longer research effort focus uses Monte-Carlo simulations and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to examine the design methodology and physical model basis for the current design procedure. Initially, the study examined the design procedure with a Monte-Carlo simulation to explore the range of acceptable designs that can be realized. Then, using CFD, full-scale prototype (located in Gila, Arizona USA) physical model result that were a key basis for the current design procedure were recreated. The study revealed that a wide range of acceptable chute designs can result from following the current design procedure but that some of these may be better than others. The study also outlines future research efforts needed to revise the current design methodology. |
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sciforum-022217 | Energy dissipation structures: Influence of aereation in supecritical flows |
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Adequate design of energy dissipation structures is essential for effective flood control. Theoretical analysis of these structures is complex due to the turbulent nature of supercritical flow and is further complicated by air entrainment. The effect of aeration on water flow has been one of most analysed phenomena during the last decades due to its influence on the behaviour of hydraulic structures. The objective of this study is to characterize the influence of aeration on the boundary friction in supercritical conditions and fully turbulent flows. Our analysis is based on a physical model designed to reproduce these phenomena in the Hydraulics Laboratory of CEDEX (Spain), funded by a research project of the Spanish Ministry of Economy. The structure consists of a spillway chute 6.5 m high, 0.5 m wide and slope of 75%, followed by a 10 m horizontal channel where the hydraulic jump is confined. Water and air are supplied by a pump and compressors and controlled at the entrance by several valves and flowmeters. This device has a pressurized intake, with 10 m head of additional pressure, which generates the mixture to reproduce different scenarios of emulsified flow, with rates up to 300 l/s of water and 3000 l/min of air. Under these conditions, velocity ranges from 6 to 12 m/s with Froude number between 4 and 11. Currently, the channel is monitored to measure the velocity profile and air concentration in the flow. The aim of our research is to analyse the relation between air concentration and energy dissipation by friction, in order to link the air concentration rate to the Manning roughness number and other methods of friction quantification. This characterization is based on the velocity and concentration profiles along the vertical axis. We collected data of 12 different scenarios to analyse the relationship between aeration rate and roughness coefficient. We found that greater air entrainment implies acceleration of the flow. Since friction is the main energy dissipation mechanism in the chute, hydraulic structures should be designed to minimize air entrainment and thus enhance energy dissipation by friction. |
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sciforum-021992 | CLIMATE CHANGE AND FUTUREPROOFING INFRASTRUCTURE |
Sertac Oruc ,
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As the alteration of the precipitation regime due to climate change, extreme precipitation events causing floods with the negative impacts on urban water infrastructure are observed today and expected to be observed in the future. This study examines the potential impacts of climate change and investigates the impact of these changes into urban stormwater network design. Rainfall analysis with stationary and nonstationary approach for observed and future conditions is performed for the (1950-2015 period) observed data of 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes and 1, 2, 3, 6 hour and projections (2015-2098 period) of 10, 15 minutes and 1, 6 hour for Ankara province, Turkey. Daily projections are disaggregated to finer scales, 5 minutes storm durations, then five minutes time series aggregated to the storm durations that are subject of interest and used for future period. Nonstationary Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) models and stationary GEV models for observed and future data are obtained. Nonstationary model results are in general exhibited smaller return level values with respect to stationary model results of each storm duration for the observed data driven model results. Considering the projected data driven model results; on average nonstationary models produce mostly lower return levels for mid and longer return periods for all storm durations and return periods except one hour storm duration. Depending on the models and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP), there are different results for the future extreme rainfall input; yet all results indicate a decreasing extreme trend. The magnitude of future period extreme rainfall decreases with respect to observations. Return periods of the extreme rainfall increase in the future period therefore, not considering these trends may lead to overdesign of the stormwater network. |
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sciforum-022185 | CAUSAL REASONING: AN ADAPTIVE/PREDICTIVE APPROACH FOR RUNOFF TEMPORAL BEHAVIOUR OF HIGH DEPENDENCE RIVERS | , , | N/A |
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A significant spatio-temporal alteration of traditional patterns for hydrological components´ behavior is currently being observed. In this sense, a higher variability, more frequent and unpredictable extreme events (rainfall, flood and drought) occur in many areas. This is primarily due to global warming, which is producing a growing variability and uncertainty of water systems and specially, rivers´ runoff. The understanding of these modifications and, consequently, this adaptive rivers´ behavior is not trivial and requires new approaches incorporating dynamic and stochastic approaches. Causal Reasoning, supported by Bayesian modelling is a powerful stochastic approach to extract the time dependent logical structure that inherently underlies hydrological series. The river basin memory is dynamically and stochastically characterized in terms of the runoff dependence strength over the time. In this study, by means of causality, the Temporally Conditioned/Non-conditioned runoff (TCR/TNCR) fractions are identified and quantified. This research has important implications and applications, such as to the knowledge of the historical adaptive rivers´ behavior, or to reservoirs´ dimensioning optimization. This approach has been successfully applied to an unregulated river basin in Spain with a very high dependence temporal runoff behavior, within Júcar river basin (Mijares). Having a tool that could dynamically adjust the reservoir and/or channel capacity may help for reaching the optimal design and dimensioning of hydraulic infrastructures, which involves a lot of economic savings. Further work will largely comprise the introduction of the spatial dimension so the tool can integrated a full spatio-temporal analysis. Furthermore, the analyzed runoff behavior trends will be further used for building predictive models. |
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sciforum-022215 | Effort and performance of the management of water for agriculture under climate change in Southern Europe | , , , | N/A |
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We evaluate alternatives for the management of water for agriculture under climate change in six representative basins of Southern Europe: Duero-Douro, Ebro, Guadalquivir, Po, Maritsa-Evros and Struma. Management objective is maximizing water availability, understood as the maximum demand that can be satisfied with a given reliability. We focus on water availability for agriculture. For simplification we are assuming only two types of demands: urban and irrigation. Water is first allocated to urban demands following the established priority and the remaining resources are allocated to agriculture. If water availability is not enough to satisfy all irrigation demands, management measures are applied with the goal of achieving a balance between resources and demands. We present an analysis of three possible management measures to face water scarcity in the long term scenario: increasing reservoir storage, improving efficiency of urban water use and modifying water allocation to environmental flows. These management measures are globally evaluated for the selected basins in three representative climate scenarios, comparing their possible range and effectiveness. While in some basins, like Ebro or Struma, measures can significantly increase water availability and compensate for a fraction of water scarcity due to climate change, in other basins, like Guadalquivir, water availability cannot be enhanced with management measures and irrigation water use will have to be reduced. |
List of Authors (80)
Conference Schedule
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15 October 2018
Notification of Acceptance: 19 October 2018
Deadline for Submission of Full Paper/Poster/Power Point: 31 October 2018
Conference Open: 15-30 November 2018
ECWS-3. Submission
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS-3) will be held from 15 to 30 November 2018 online . This event enables the researchers of research field to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues without the need to travel. All proceedings will be published on the conference homepage in open access format.