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Tom Chapman

BSc Leeds, PhD Southampton

Emeritus Professor

Contact Details

Office Location:
CE 714 Civil Engineering Building (H20)
Phone: +61 2 9385 5015
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: t.chapmanroberto@unsw.edujlo.au

Research Areas

Hydrology generally, with emphasis on interactions between surface and subsurface hydrology, and impact of land management on catchment hydrology. Stochastic modelling of daily rainfall. Dupuit-Forchheimer modelling of groundwater systems.

Selected Publications since 1990

Chapman, T. G., and G. Ong (2006), A new equation for shallow groundwater flow over a curved impermeable boundary: Numerical solutions and laboratory tests, Water Resour. Res., 42, W03427, doi:10.1029/2005WR004437.

Chapman(2005), Recharge-induced groundwater flow over a plane sloping bed: Solutions for steady and transient flow using physical and numerical models, Water Resour. Res., 41,W07027, doi:10.1029/2004WR003606.

Chapman, T.G. "A comparison of algorithms for stream flow recession and baseflow separation", Hydrol. Processes, 13: 701-714, 1999.

Chapman, T.G. "Stochastic modelling of daily rainfall: the impact of adjoining wet days on the distribution of rainfall amounts", Environmental Modelling and Software , 13 (3-4): 317-324, 1998.

Chapman, T.G. "Common unitgraphs for sets of runoff events. 1. Unitgraph identification from streamflow data", Hydrol. Processes , 10: 773-782, 1996.

Chapman, T.G. "Common unitgraphs for sets of runoff events. 2. Comparisons and inferences for rainfall loss models", Hydrol. Processes , 10: 783-792, 1996.

Chapman, T.G. "New methods of unitgraph and loss rate estimation applied to urban catchments", J. Hydrol. (N.Z.) 31 (1): 111-123, 1994 .

Chapman, T.G. "Construction of hydrological models for natural systems management", Math. and Comp. in Simulation 32: 13-37, 1990.

Professional Services

Consultant to public authorities and private enterprise in relation to the impact of mining on the hydrologic environment, and the water resources of small islands.