Numerical and Statistical Modelling in Water Resources Engineering and Management

Engr. Dr. M. Mahboob Alam has over 15 years of experience in modelling of catchments of different sizes for water resources engineering and management. He has worked on water resources management issues in different regions of the world. He has extensive experience by developing reservoir operation rules for maximizing net monetary, ecological and environmental benefits and has developed the same for multiple reservoirs in countries of Central Africa. In Pakistan he has worked with different NGOs and donor agencies in the field of climate change impacts on water resources, snow and glacial melts, water supply and water conservation. His expertise lies in statistical methods in water resources and statistical downscaling of extremes of precipitation and temperature.
He did his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from UET Peshawar, Pakistan followed by Maters and PhD from University of Stuttgart, Germany. He has attended and conducted numerous seminars related to water resources engineering and management and is currently serving as Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Architecture at City University of Science & Information Technology, Peshawar.
The seminar was concerned with the state-of-the-art modelling. Modeling generally helps us to understand the behavior of physical processes when subjected to different initial conditions. While numerical models attempt to describe all the processes in as exact manner as possible to qualify changes, Statistical models tries to develop relationships between variables by using past available observations.