James Smith
Title
William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus. Senior Scholar.
Position
Research Areas
Energy and Environmental Engineering / Urban Systems and Resilience
University Affiliation
Research Interests
Hydrology; hydraulics and hydrometeorology of extreme floods; development of technologies for measuring rainfall from weather radar; stochastic modeling of the space-time structure of rainfall and microphysical studies of extreme rainfall from organized systems of thunderstorms; heterogeneity of hydrologic response in urbanizing watersheds; stability of the channel-floodplain system in urban drainage networks and the hydraulics of extreme floods in urban rivers.
HMEI Affiliation