Invited Speaker

Abstract: Hydrological analysis plays an important role in catchment planning and natural disaster management. There are many methods to deal with those tasks, however numerical modeling is considered as a simple, economical and effective one for providing the basic insight of hydrological processes in catchment scale. Results from an accurate model may help to estimate the impact of natural phenomena on properties and human. The hydrological model furthermore guides human to answer on how to prevent the effects of those hazards on human society. Moreover, the efficiency of hydrological modeling nonetheless depends mainly on the accuracy of many factors, especially the data inputs which are not always easy to fully obtain in developing countries and large catchments. Although with the strong development of specialized equipment, most of the catchments in the world are still ungauged. It leads to the big challenges to build fully made hydrological modeling in those catchments when the local runoff data is lack seriously for calibrating the model parameters. In this study, the difficulties in hydrological modeling about the lack of data will be analyzed for Vietnam central region. The experience from 8 catchments with different scales and data situations over Vietnam central are showcased. The full distribution model performance is also demonstrated for its preeminence towards the lack of data monsoon climate catchments.

Biography: Dr. VO Ngoc Duong is the vice dean of the Faculty of Water Resources Engineering, The University of Da Nang – University of Science and Technology; an associate member of Polytech’Lab, University of Nice, France; header of Smart Water team at the Da Nang International Institute of Technology (DNIIT); member of Vietnam Association for Fluid Mechanics. He lectures on the courses related to hydrology and hydraulic construction, natural risk management, coastal engineering, GIS applications. With experience obtaining from plenty of international and domestic projects, his team and him will be a positive and responsible member of research projects concerned with water resources engineering, especially with catchments scale and in the Vietnam central region.