by Robert Czachorski | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog |
Clearing up the confusion on copyright and ownership of models, equations, programs and publications. The antecedent moisture model (AMM) has recently been placed in the public domain. What does that really mean? What rights do you have to use the AMM, and how does...
by Robert Czachorski | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog |
Modeling Rainfall Runoff Responses and Antecedent Moisture Effects Using Principles of System Identification. Abstract Rainfall-runoff dynamics of surface water, combined sewer, and separate sewer systems can be highly impacted by antecedent moisture conditions, i.e....
by Robert Czachorski | Nov 13, 2020 | Blog |
Introduction Antecedent moisture (AM) conditions, or the relative wetness or dryness of a system, can have a tremendous impact on rainfall-runoff dynamics. The magnitude of the runoff (flow) from rainfall can be affected by how wet the drainage area is from prior...
by Robert Czachorski | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog |
I recently had the pleasure of presenting in a webinar on channel roughness (here is a link to webinar video) for the Australian Water School’s training arm called ICE WaMR (International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management). My portion of the...
by Robert Czachorski | Nov 22, 2019 | Blog |
An advanced approach to predicting wet-weather flows in sanitary sewers that incorporates antecedent moisture effects and long-term climate data. This article provides an overview of antecedent moisture effects and the antecedent moisture model. Additional references...
by Robert Czachorski | Jan 19, 2019 | Blog |
Over the past several years, I’ve slowly been building out my smart home. It started with a Nest Thermostat in 2012. Then several years went by and I tested out a couple of smart switches for the basement. When those were easy to install and worked well, I was...