Prof. Amithirigala Widhanelage Jayawardena

Department of Civil Engineering

The University of Hong Kong, China

Adjunct Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

Chu Hai College of Higher Education-Hong Kong, China

Visiting Professor

E-mail: hrecjaw@hku.hk

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of London, UK

Publications (Selected)

1. Jayawardena, A. W. and Lai, F. Z. (1994): Analysis and prediction of Chaos in Rainfall and Streamflow Time Series, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 153 (1-4), January 1994, pp. 23-52.
2. Jayawardena, A. W. and R. R. Bhuiyan (1999): Evaluation of an interill soil erosion model using laboratory catchment data, Hydrological Processes, vol 13(1), January 1999, pp 89-100.
3. Jayawardena, A. W. and Zhou, M.C. (2000): A modified spatial soil moisture storage capacity distribution curve for the Xinanjiang model, Journal of Hydrology, vol 227 (1-4), January 2000, pp 93-113.
4. Jayawardena, A. W. and Gurung, A. B. (2000): Noise reduction and prediction of hydrometeorological time series: dynamical systems approach vs. stochastic approach, Journal of Hydrology, vol 228 (3-4), March 2000, pp 242-264.
5. Jayawardena, A. W. and Mahanama, S. P. P. (2002): Meso-scale Hydrological Modelling: Application to Mekong and Chao Phraya Basins, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE , vol 7 (1), January/February 2002, pp 12-26.
6. Jayawardena, A. W., Muttil, N., and Lee, J.H.W.(2006): Comparative analysis of a data-driven and GIS-based conceptual rainfall-runoff model, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE , vol 11, no. 1, January 1, 2006, pp 1-11.
7. Jayawardena, A. W., Xu, P.C., and Li, W. K. (2008): A method of estimating the noise level in a chaotic time series, Chaos, American Institute of Physics, vol 18, issue 2, pp 023115-023115-11, DOI:10.1063/1.2903757
8. Jayawardena, A. W., Xu, P.C., and Li, W. K. (2009): Rainfall data simulation by hidden Markov model and discrete wavelet transformation, Stochastic Environment Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA), vol 23: 863-877, DOI: 10.1007/s00477-008-0264-0.
9. Jayawardena, A. W., Xu, P.C., and Li, W. K. (2010): Modified correlation entropy estimation for a noisy chaotic time series, Chaos, American Institute of Physics, vol 20, 023104 (2010), DOI:10.1063/1.3382013, pp. 023104-1 – 023104-11.
10. A. W. Jayawardena (2014):  Environmental and Hydrological Systems Modelling, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Baton, Fl, 33487, USA, 516 pp.