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- Associate Professor
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Olivera, Francisco Associate Professor
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- Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, College of Engineering
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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do Lago, C., Hofheinz Giacomoni, M., Olivera, F., & Mário Mendiondo, E.
(2021).
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Transportation Infrastructure Using the Hydrologic-Footprint-Residence Metric. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
26(5), 04021014-04021014.
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Han, J., Olivera, F., & Kim, D.
(2021).
An Algorithm of Spatial Composition of Hourly Rainfall Fields for Improved High Rainfall Value Estimation. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering.
25(1), 356-368.
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Kulat, M. I., Mohtar, R. H., & Olivera, F.
(2019).
Holistic Water-Energy-Food Nexus for Guiding Water Resources Planning: Matagorda County, Texas Case. Front Environ Sci.
7(FEB), 3.
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(2018).
Addressing Challenges to Building Resilience Through Interdisciplinary Research and Engagement. Risk Anal.
41(7), 1248-1253.
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Hsu, C., Olivera, F., & Irish, J. L
(2018).
A hurricane surge risk assessment framework using the joint probability method and surge response functions. Natural Hazards.
91(Suppl 1), 7-28.
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Muoz, L. A., Olivera, F., Giglio, M., & Berke, P.
(2018).
The impact of urbanization on the streamflows and the 100-year floodplain extent of the Sims Bayou in Houston, Texas. International Journal of River Basin Management.
16(1), 61-69.
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Villas-Boas, M. D., Olivera, F., & de Azevedo, J
(2017).
Assessment of the water quality monitoring network of the Piabanha River experimental watersheds in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using autoassociative neural networks. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
189(9), 439.
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Ferreira, C. M., Irish, J. L., & Olivera, F
(2014).
Quantifying the potential impact of land cover changes due to sea-level rise on storm surge on lower Texas coast bays. Coastal Engineering.
94, 102-111.
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Cho, H., & Olivera, F
(2014).
Application of Multimodal Optimization for Uncertainty Estimation of Computationally Expensive Hydrologic Models. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.
140(3), 313-321.
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Ferreira, C. M., Irish, J. L., & Olivera, F
(2014).
Uncertainty in hurricane surge simulation due to land cover specification. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans.
119(3), 1812-1827.
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Ferreira, C. M., Olivera, F., & Irish, J. L
(2014).
Arc StormSurge: Integrating Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling and GIS. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
50(1), 219-233.
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Miguel Barranco, L., Alvarez-Rodriguez, J., Olivera, F., Potenciano, A., Quintas, L., & Estrada, F.
(2014).
Assessment of the Expected Runoff Change in Spain Using Climate Simulations. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
19(7), 1481-1490.
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Kim, D., Olivera, F., & Cho, H
(2013).
Effect of the inter-annual variability of rainfall statistics on stochastically generated rainfall time series: part 1. Impact on peak and extreme rainfall values. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment.
27(7), 1601-1610.
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Kim, D., Olivera, F., Cho, H., & Lee, S. O
(2013).
Effect of the inter-annual variability of rainfall statistics on stochastically generated rainfall time series: part 2. Impact on watershed response variables. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment.
27(7), 1611-1619.
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Govindasamy, A. V., Briaud, J., Kim, D., Olivera, F., Gardoni, P., & Delphia, J
(2013).
Observation Method for Estimating Future Scour Depth at Existing Bridges. JOURNAL OF GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING.
139(7), 1165-1175.
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Kim, D., Olivera, F., Cho, H., & Socolofsky, S. A
(2013).
Regionalization of the Modified Bartlett-Lewis Rectangular Pulse Stochastic Rainfall Model. TAO: Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
24(3), 421-421.
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Kim, D., & Olivera, F
(2012).
Relative Importance of the Different Rainfall Statistics in the Calibration of Stochastic Rainfall Generation Models. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
17(3), 368-376.
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Cho, H., Kim, D., Olivera, F., & Guikema, S. D
(2011).
Enhanced speciation in particle swarm optimization for multi-modal problems. European Journal of Operational Research.
213(1), 15-23.
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Mousavi, M. E., Irish, J. L., Frey, A. E., Olivera, F., & Edge, B. L
(2011).
Global warming and hurricanes: the potential impact of hurricane intensification and sea level rise on coastal flooding. CLIMATIC CHANGE.
104(3-4), 575-597.
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Larentis, D. G., Collischonn, W., Olivera, F., & Tucci, C
(2010).
Gis-based procedures for hydropower potential spotting. Energy.
35(10), 4237-4243.
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Irish, J. L., Frey, A. E., Rosati, J. D., Olivera, F., Dunkin, L. M., Kaihatu, J. M., Ferreira, C. M., & Edge, B. L
(2010).
Potential implications of global warming and barrier island degradation on future hurricane inundation, property damages, and population impacted. Ocean and Coastal Management.
53(10), 645-657.
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Frey, A. E., Olivera, F., Irish, J. L., Dunkin, L. M., Kaihatu, J. M., Ferreira, C. M., & Edge, B. L
(2010).
Potential Impact of Climate Change on Hurricane Flooding Inundation, Population Affected and Property Damages in Corpus Christi1. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
46(5), 1049-1059.
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Zaitchik, B. F., Rodell, M., & Olivera, F
(2010).
Evaluation of the Global Land Data Assimilation System using global river discharge data and a source-to-sink routing scheme. Water Resources Research.
46(6),
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Choi, J., Olivera, F., & Socolofsky, S. A
(2009).
Storm Identification and Tracking Algorithm for Modeling of Rainfall Fields Using 1-h NEXRAD Rainfall Data in Texas. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
14(7), 721-730.
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Cho, H., & Olivera, F
(2009).
Effect of the Spatial Variability of Land Use, Soil Type, and Precipitation on Streamflows in Small Watersheds. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
45(3), 673-686.
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Cho, H., Olivera, F., & Guikema, S. D
(2008).
A derivation of the number of minima of the Griewank function. Applied Mathematics and Computation.
204(2), 694-701.
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Merwade, V., Olivera, F., Arabi, M., & Edleman, S
(2008).
Uncertainty in Flood Inundation Mapping: Current Issues and Future Directions. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
13(7), 608-620.
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Olivera, F., Choi, J., Kim, D., & Li, M
(2008).
Estimation of Average Rainfall Areal Reduction Factors in Texas Using NEXRAD Data. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
13(6), 438-448.
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Choi, J., Socolofsky, S. A., & Olivera, F
(2008).
Hourly Disaggregation of Daily Rainfall in Texas Using Measured Hourly Precipitation at Other Locations. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
13(6), 476-487.
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Li, M., Barrett, M. E., Rammohan, P., Olivera, F., & Landphair, H. C
(2008).
Documenting Stormwater Quality on Texas Highways and Adjacent Vegetated Roadsides. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING.
134(1), 48-59.
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Olivera, F., & DeFee, B. B
(2007).
Urbanization and Its Effect On Runoff in the Whiteoak Bayou Watershed, Texas1. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
43(1), 170-182.
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Olivera, F., Valenzuela, M., Srinivasan, R., Choi, J., Cho, H., Koka, S., & Agrawal, A
(2006).
ERRATUM. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
42(3), 807-807.
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Olivera, F., Koka, S., & Nelson, J
(2006).
WaterNet: A GIS Application for the Analysis of Hydrologic Networks Using Vector Spatial Data. Transactions in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
10(3), 355-375.
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Olivera, F., Valenzuela, M., Srinivasan, R., Choi, J., Cho, H., Koka, S., & Agrawal, A
(2006).
ARCGIS-SWAT: A GEODATA MODEL AND GIS INTERFACE FOR SWAT. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
42(2), 295-309.
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Olivera, F., & Koka, S
(2004).
Hydrodynamic Dispersive and Advective Processes in Watershed Responses. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
9(6), 534-543.
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Olivera, F., & Raina, R
(2003).
DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE SCALE GRIDDED RIVER NETWORKS FROM VECTOR STREAM DATA. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
39(5), 1235-1248.
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Olivera, F., Lear, M. S., Famiglietti, J. S., & Asante, K
(2002).
Extracting low-resolution river networks from high-resolution digital elevation models. Water Resources Research.
38(11), 13-1-13-8-138.
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Tate, E. C., Maidment, D. R., Olivera, F., & Anderson, D. J
(2002).
Creating a Terrain Model for Floodplain Mapping. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
7(2), 100-108.
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Olivera, F
(2001).
Extracting Hydrologic Information from Spatial Data for HMS Modeling. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
6(6), 524-530.
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Olivera, F., Famiglietti, J., & Asante, K
(2000).
Global-scale flow routing using a source-to-sink algorithm. Water Resources Research.
36(8), 2197-2207.
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Olivera, F., & Maidment, D
(1999).
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based spatially distributed model for runoff routing. Water Resources Research.
35(4), 1155-1164.
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Olivera, F., & Maidment, D
(1999).
Geographic information systems (GIS)-based spatially distributed model for runoff routing. Polygraph International.
1155-1164.
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Olivera, F., & Maidment, D
(1998).
Geographic Information System Use for Hydrologic Data Development for Design of Highway Drainage Facilities. HIGHWAY FACILITY DESIGN.
1625(1), 131-138.
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MAIDMENT, D. R., OLIVERA, F., CALVER, A., EATHERALL, A., & FRACZEK, W
(1996).
UNIT HYDROGRAPH DERIVED FROM A SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED VELOCITY FIELD. Hydrological Processes.
10(6), 831-844.
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Barranco, L. M., lvarez-Rodrguez, J., Olivera, F., & Potenciano, . .
Analysis of downscaled climatic simulations to infer future changes on high precipitation in Spain. International Journal of River Basin Management.
15(2), 161-173.
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do Lago, C., Hofheinz Giacomoni, M., Olivera, F., & Mário Mendiondo, E.
(2021).
Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Transportation Infrastructure Using the Hydrologic-Footprint-Residence Metric. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
26(5), 04021014-04021014.
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conference paper
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Irish, J. L., Ferreira, C., Resio, D. T., Olivera, F., & Hsu, C. H
(2012).
Hurricane hazard assessment: Considerations for sea-level rise and climate change
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Irish, J. L., Ferreira, C., Olivera, F., Udoh, I., Song, Y. K., & Chang, K
(2011).
RAPID PROBABILISTIC HURRICANE SURGE AND DAMAGE FORECASTING USING SURGE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS. Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Engineering.
20-20.
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Govindasamy, A. V., Briaud, J., Kim, D., Olivera, F., Gardoni, P., & Delphia, J
(2010).
Observational Method for Estimating Future Scour Depth at Existing Bridges. ENGINEERING, MONITORING, AND MANAGEMENT OF GEOTECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (GEO-CONGRESS 2020 ).
41-65.
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Ferreira, C., Olivera, F., & Djokic, D
(2010).
Development of Large Topographic Datasets for Hydrologic Analysis. 2772-2780.
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Kim, D., & Olivera, F
(2010).
Improving Stochastic Rainfall Generators. 2324-2327.
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Irish, J. L., Frey, A. E., Mousavi, M. E., Olivera, F., Edge, B. L., Kaihatu, J., Dunkin, L. M., & Song, Y. K
(2009).
PREDICTING THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON HURRICANE FLOODING. COASTAL ENGINEERING 2004, VOLS 1-4.
1050-1059.
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Govindasamy, A. V., Briaud, J., Chen, H., Delphia, J., Elsbury, K., Gardoni, P., ... Olivera, F
(2008).
Simplified Method for Estimating Scour at Bridges. ENGINEERING, MONITORING, AND MANAGEMENT OF GEOTECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE (GEO-CONGRESS 2020 ).
385-393.
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Olivera, F., Valenzuela, M., & Srinivasan, R
(2004).
ArcGIS-SWAT: A GIS interface for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). 1496-1504.
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Olivera, F., Dodson, R., & Djokic, D
(2003).
Use of Arc Hydro for Integration of Hydrologic Applications. 307-315.
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Irish, J. L., Ferreira, C., Resio, D. T., Olivera, F., & Hsu, C. H
(2012).
Hurricane hazard assessment: Considerations for sea-level rise and climate change
Research
co-principal investigator on
Teaching
teaching activities
- CVEN311 Fluid Dynamics Instructor
- CVEN339 Water Resources Engr-spain Instructor
- CVEN423 Geomatics For Civil Eng Instructor
- CVEN423 Geomatics For Civil Eng: Per Instructor
- CVEN455 Urban Stormwater Mgmt Instructor
- CVEN658 Cven Applications Of Gis Instructor
- CVEN685 Directed Studies Instructor
- CVEN691 Research Instructor
- ENGR482 Ethics And Engineering-peru Instructor
- WMHS691 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Agrawal, Ashish (2005-08). PrePro2004: a data model with pre and post-processor for HEC-HMS.
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Cho, Huidae (2008-08). On the Predictive Uncertainty of a Distributed Hydrologic Model.
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Choi, Janghwoan (2006-12). Study on spatio-temporal properties of rainfall.
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Damodaram, Chandana (2010-12). Simulating and Optimizing Storm Water Management Strategies in an Urban Watershed.
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Ferreira, Celso (2012-08). The Influence of Coastal Wetlands on Hurricane Surge and Damage with Application to Planning under Climate Change.
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Giacomoni, Marcio (2012-08). Complex Adaptive Systems Simulation-Optimization Framework for Adaptive Urban Water Resources Management.
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Gill, Tarun Deep (2005-05). Transformation of point rainfall to areal rainfall by estimating areal reduction factors, using radar data, for Texas.
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Hsu, Chih-Hung (2014-08). Hurricane Surge Flooding Damage Assessment and Web-Based Game Development to Support K12 Education for Understanding Climate Change Impact on Hurricane Surge Flooding Damage.
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Kim, Dong Kyun (2009-12). Study on Poisson Cluster Stochastic Rainfall Generators.
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Koka, Srikanth (2006-05). Integration of stream and watershed data for hydrologic modeling.
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Mu?oz Ordo?ez, Leslie (2015-05). The Effect of Urbanization on the Streanflows of the Sims Bayou Watershed.
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Raina, Rajeev (2003-05). Development of a cell-based stream flow routing model.
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Rammohan, Pavitra (2005-05). Performance of vegetated roadsides in removing stormwater pollutants.
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Sukheswalla, Zubin Rohinton (2003-12). A statistical model for estimating mean annual and mean monthly flows at ungaged locations.
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Valenzuela Zapata, Milver Alfredo (2003-12). Development of an ArcGIS interface and design of a geodatabase for the soil and water assessment tool.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 1996
Contact
first name
- Francisco
has last name
- Olivera
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Civil Engineering
3136 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3136
USA
Other
- folivera@tamu.edu