Representative Publications of Dr. Kavvas in his research focus areas:
1) Mathematical modeling of the integrated hydrologic-atmospheric processes at global, continental, country and watershed scales for the simulation and prediction of hydrologic water balances
- On the physics of droughts. II. Analysis and simulation of the interaction of atmospheric and hydrologic processes during droughts. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 129, 1991.
- A regional-scale land surface parameterization based on areally-averaged hydrological conservation equations. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 43(4), 1998.
- Upscaling of Coupled Land Surface Process Modeling for Heterogeneous Landscapes: Stochastic Approach. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(12), 2011.
- Reconstructed Historical Atmospheric Data by Dynamical Downscaling. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 12(2), 2007.
- A study of water balances over the Tigris–Euphrates watershed. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 2011.
- Coupled Regional Hydroclimate Model and Its Application to the Tigris-Euphrates Basin. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(12), 2011.
- Water Balance Study for the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(12), 2011.
- Impact of Water Resources Utilization on the Hydrology of Mesopotamian Marshlands. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(12), 2011.
- Reconstruction of Historical Atmospheric Data by a Hydroclimate Model for the Mekong River Basin. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(12), 2011.
- Application of a Coupled Regional-Scale Hydrological-Atmospheric Model to Japan for Climate Change Study. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(12), 2011.
- WEHY-HCM for Modeling Interactive Atmospheric-Hydrologic Processes at Watershed Scale: I. Model Description. J. Hydrol. Eng., 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000724 (Sep. 30, 2012).
- WEHY-HCM for modeling interactive atmospheric-hydrologic processes– Application to ungauged and sparsely-gauged watersheds
2) Numerical modelling/simulation of the Physics of Droughts
- On the physics of droughts. I. A conceptual framework. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 129, 1991.
- On the physics of droughts. II. Analysis and simulation of the interaction of atmospheric and hydrologic processes during droughts. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 129, 1991.
- Assessing Hydrologic Drought Risk Using Simplified Climate Model. J. Hydrol. Eng., 5(4). 2000.
- On the physics of droughts presentation
3) Physically-based numerical hydro-climate modelling of Probable Maximum Precipitation
- Physically-based estimation of max precipitation – presentation
- Physically Based Estimation of Maximum Precipitation over American River Watershed, California. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16(4), 2011.
4) Numerical atmospheric model-based hydrologic flood prediction
- Atmospheric model based flood forecasts – presentation
- Atmospheric Model-Based Streamflow Forecasting at Small, Mountainous Watersheds by a Distributed Hydrologic Model: Application to a Watershed in Japan. J. Hydrol. Eng., 14(10), 2009.
- Coupling HEC-HMS with Atmospheric Models for Prediction of Watershed Runoff. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 7(4), 2002.
5) Modeling of Hydrologic and Environmental Processes at Watershed Scale
- WEHY Model & Application presentation
- WEHY – Hydrologic Module
- WEHY – parameter estimation
- WEHY – model application
- WEHY – Environment modeling module
- WEHY – HCM presentation
- Watershed hydroclimate model WEHY-HCM – Model description
- WEHY-HCM for modeling interactive atmospheric-hydrologic processes at watershed scale: II. Model application to unagauged and sparsely-gauged watersheds
6) Scaling Issues
- Theoretical hydrology wrt scaling and heterogeneity over sparsely gaged or ungaged basins – presentation
- Theoretical hydrology wrt scaling and heterogeneity
- Coarse graining of hydrologic processes with increasing scales
- Scale invariance and self-similarity in hydrologic processes
- Scale invariance and self-similarity in kinematic wave overland flow
- Spatial averaging of unsaturated flow equations-Development
- Spatial averaging of unsaturated flow equations-Numerical simulations
- Scaling and self-similarity in one-dimensional unsteady open channel flow
7) Theory and Physically-based modeling of Stochastic Hydrologic Processes
- Spatial averaging of unsaturated flow equations-Development
- Spatial averaging of unsaturated flow equations-Numerical simulations
- Ensemble modeling of stochastic hydrologic dynamics- with symmetry method – presentation
- Nonlinear Stochastic Hydrologic Processes – JHE 2003
- Stochastic elastic-plastic finite elements – CMAME_2011
- 1-D Stochastic unconfined GW flow paper – SERRA
- Stochastic 2D Boussinesq Eqn by Symmetry
- Ensemble modeling of hydrologic and hydraulic processes: stochastic method of characteristics – 1
- Ensemble modeling of hydrologic and hydraulic processes: stochastic method of characteristics – 2
8) Theory and Modeling of Stochastic Pollution Transport
- Macrodispersion and dispersive transport presentation
- Theory of nonstationary stochastic groundwater solute transport
- Ensemble-averaged equations for reactive transport
- Comparison of stochastic transport theory with field data
- General_Conservation_Equation_for_Solute_Transport
- Modeling solute transport by unsteady streamflow
- Calculating the macrodispersion coefficient
- Generalized Ficks law and ADE – detailed derivation
