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Ian Cordery

ME PhD UNSW

Visiting Fellow

Contact Details

Office Location:
CE 203 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5024
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: i.corderyroberto@unsw.edujlo.au

Teaching Areas

Engineering Hydrology
Irrigation

Research Areas

Hydrology in engineering design
Flood estimation for design. Modelling of processes for design applications. Estimation of appropriate parameters for design application of models.
Drought
Forecasting of drought in Australia. Forecasting cereal crop yields at the time of planting.
Economics in hydrological design
Economic selection of appropriate design criteria. Probabilistic design. Economics of structural and non structural flood protection.
Economics of hydrometric data collection
Economics of collection of water-quantity data.

Selected Publications

Ruiz, JE, Cordery, I. and Sharma, A. Impact of mid-Pacific Ocean thermocline on the prediction of Australian rainfall. Journal of Hydrology, 317:104-122, 2005.

Cordery, I. Field performance of a vortex type gross pollutant trap. Australian Journal of Water Resources, 9:49-54, 2005.

Cordery, I. and Cloke, P.S. Monitoring for modelling reality and sound economics. 6th Int. Conf. on Headwater Control, Bergen, Norway, June 2005, CD Rom, 9 pages.

Cordery, I. and McCall, M., "A model for forecasting drought from teleconnections". Water Resources Research, 36:763-768, 2000.

Putuhena, W.M. and Cordery, I. "Some hydrological effects of changing forest cover from eucalypts to Pinus radiata". Agric. and Forest Meteorology, 100:59-72, 2000.

Cordery, I. "Long range forecasting of low rainfall". Int. Jour. Climatology, 19:463-490, 1999

Titmarsh, G.W., Cordery, I. and Pilgrim, D.H., "Calibration procedures for the Rational and USSCS design flood methods", Journ. Hydraulic Engg., Amer. Soc. Civ. Engrs., 121: 61-70, 1995

Pilgrim, D.H. and Cordery, I., "Flood runoff", Chapter 9 of "Handbook of Hydrology", 9.1-9.42, McGray-Hill, New York, 1993

Cordery, I. and Cloke, P.S., "An overview of the value of collecting streamflow data", Civ. Eng. Trans., Inst. Engrs. Aust., CE34: 271-276, 1992

Professional Services

Consultant to industry through Unisearch Ltd. in areas of estimation of design floods, damages suits resulting from flooding, innovative methods of flood reduction in urban developments, design of major hydro-power schemes.
Consultant to World Meteorological Organisation for review of UNDP aid project on flood forecasting, and to UNDP project on data collection and analysis. Member of International Hydrological Program (UNESCO) Working Party on "Coping with Water Scarcity".

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