Professor Ke-Sheng Cheng
Dept of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering &
Master Program in Statistics
Email: rslab@ntu.edu.tw
RSLAB_BSE_NTU
No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road
Bioenvironmental Syst. Eng., National Taiwan University
(This is an English-Medium Instruction (EMI) course)
Introduction
Hydrology and climatology are two closely related branches of earth science. Almostallvariablesinhydrologicaland/orclimatologicalprocessesexhibitcertain degree of randomness. Either from a scientific or engineering point of view, understanding and characterizing the random nature of hydroclimatic processes enables us to make sound decisions for water management and disaster prevention. In this course, students will learn step by step from characterizing and simulating a single random variable to simulation of a spatiotemporal random field which is composed of many correlated random variables in space and in time. Stochastic simulation will be highly emphasized in class since it is the foundation for probability-based risk assessment.
The objectives of this course are:
1. To introduce fundamental concept of stochastic modeling, and their applications.
2. To demonstrate the stochastic nature of hydroclimatic processes.
3. To discuss the uncertainty involved in model parameter estimationandintroduce the techniques of stochastic simulation for quantifying uncertainties.
4. To demonstrate stochastic modeling of hydroclimaticprocesses.
5. To demonstrate practical applications of stochastic modeling/simulation for water resources management and riskassessment.
Prequisits:
BSMI wind speed time series analysis (PPT, PDF)
RSLAB - NTU
Prof. Ke-Sheng Cheng
RSLAB_BSE_NTU
No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road
Bioenvironmental Syst. Eng., National Taiwan University