Professor Dawei Han
B.Eng., M.Sc.(Huabei), Ph.D.(Salf.), C.Eng., FCIWEM
Current positions
Professor of Hydroinformatics
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
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Research interests
Research Interests
Hydroinformatics(Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Hybrid systems)
Real-time Flood Forecasting(System design, real-time updating, ungauged catchment, uncertainty, lumped hydrological modelling)
Flood Risk Assessment and Management(Flood risk assessment, flood statistics, frequency analysis, PMP/PMF, geostatistics, hydrological design)
Climate Change (Climate policy, weather modelling, climate trend, impact, mitigation and adaptation)
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System(Weather radar, satellite, digital terrain model, distributed hydrological modeling, GIS)
Water Resources Management(Water resources assessment, hydroecology, catchment soil moisture modelling)
Natural Hazards (Debris flow, drought, flood)
Systems (Nonlinear system, complex adaptive system, systems engineering)
Environmental engineering (Water quality, ecosystems)
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Physical and mental health toll of food insecurity due to climate change: A pilot exploration of Uganda and South Africa
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Governments of 193 countries agree that 17 Sustainable Development Goals should be achieved by 2030. The top three are no poverty, zero hunger and good health and wellbeing. This work…Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
03/05/2021 to 30/07/2021
Climate Change Adaptation to Manage the Risks of Extreme Hydrological and Weather Events for Food Security in Vulnerable West Nile Delta
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2018 to 01/04/2020
Climate Change Adaptation to Manage the Risks of Extreme Hydrological and Weather Events for Food Security in Vulnerable West Nile Delta
Principal Investigator
Description
Project supported by the UK Newton Fund via British Council (Grant No: 332430681)Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/04/2018 to 30/09/2020
8035 Water Management Using Data Mining and Remote Sensing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Dates
31/03/2018 to 30/09/2022
Exploring Water Quality Monitoring and Modelling in Bristol Harbour
Principal Investigator
Description
This 4-month project aims to work on analysing and visualising the water quality data in the Bristol Floating Harbour through multidisciplinary collaborations.Managing organisational unit
Dates
30/03/2017 to 29/07/2017
Thesis supervisions
An Unsupervised Method for Characterising the Operation of Bulk Handling Conveyor Belt Systems In-Service
Supervisors
Analysis of climate change using century-long reanalysis data over South Korea
Supervisors
Uncertainty propagation in complex coupled flood risk models using numerical weather prediction and weather radars
Supervisors
The investigation of high frequency water quality monitoring and prediction
Supervisors
Advanced Extreme Rainfall Simulation Using a Numerical Weather Prediction Model
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
05/06/2025Exploring suitable domain size for high-resolution urban rainfall simulation
Urban Climate
How can we improve data integration to enhance urban air temperature estimations?
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Impacts of human activities on vegetation dynamics amid climate change
Journal of Environmental Management
On the connection between large-scale climate indices and rainfall variability in Iraq
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Radar Remote Sensing Retrieval of Vertical Profile of Rainfall Kinetic Energy in the U.K
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
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