Publications

A partial listing of my publications, available as pdf electronic files, are listed below. These publications are provided for research and training purposes. See my Resume for a complete publications list.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND COMMENTS:

Hiraga, Y., Iseri, Y., Warner, M.D., Duren, A.M., England, J.F., Frans, C.D., and Kavvas, M.L. (2024) Model-based estimation of design precipitation for long duration process-driven floods. Manuscript submitted to J. Flood Risk Management, February 2024, in review.

Hiraga, Y., Iseri, Y., Warner, M.D., Duren, A.M., England, J.F., and Kavvas, M.L. (2024) Response of precipitation increases to changes in atmospheric moisture and its flux in the Columbia River Basin: WRF model-based precipitation maximization for PMP studies. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Volume XX No. XX, in Press.

Hiraga, Y., Iseri, Y., Warner, M.D., Duren, A.M., England, J.F., Frans, C.D., and Kavvas, M.L. (2024) Maximization of precipitation sequences during wintertime in the Columbia River basin and its analysis. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 12, No. 2, 23-16005, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2208/journalofjsce.23-16005 

Skahill, B.; Smith, C.H.; Russell, B.T.; England, J.F. (2023) Impacts of Max-Stable Process Areal Exceedance Calculations to Study Area Sampling Density, Surface Network Precipitation Gage Extent and Density, and Model Fitting Method. Hydrology, 10, 121. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology10060121

Hiraga, Y., Iseri, Y., Warner, M.D., Frans, C.D., Duren, A.M., England, J.F. and Kavvas, M.L. (2023) Comparison of Numerical Weather Model-based Precipitation Maximization methods for the Estimation of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP): Moisture optimization method, Storm transposition method, and their combination, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Volume 28 No. 1, https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0002234

Hiraga, Y., Iseri, Y., Warner, M.D., Frans, C.D., Duren, A.M., England, J.F. and Kavvas, M.L. (2021) Estimation of Long-duration Maximum Precipitation during a winter season for large basins dominated by Atmospheric Rivers using a Numerical Weather Model, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 598, 126224, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126224

Love, C.A., Skahill, B.E., England, J.F., Karlovits, G., Duren, A., and AghaKouchak, A. (2020) Integrating Climatic and Physical Information in a Bayesian Hierarchical Model of Extreme Daily Precipitation, Water 12(8), 2211; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12082211

Wright, Daniel B., Yu, Guo, and England, John F. (2020) Six decades of rainfall and flood frequency analysis using stochastic storm transposition: Review, progress, and prospects, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 585, 124816, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124816

Toride, K., Y. Iseri, M.D. Warner, C.D. Frans, A.M. Duren, J.F. England, and M.L. Kavvas (2019) Model-Based Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimation: How to Estimate the Worst-Case Scenario Induced by Atmospheric Rivers?. J. Hydrometeor., 20, 2383–2400, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0039.1

Toride, K., Iseri, Y., Duren, A.M., England, J.F. and Kavvas, M.L. (2019) Evaluation of physical parameterizations for atmospheric river induced precipitation and application to long-term reconstruction based on three reanalysis datasets in Western Oregon, Science of The Total Environment, v. 658, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.214, pp. 570-581.

Lee, Taesam, England, John F., and Son, Chanyoung, (2017) Application of New Version of Flood Frequency Analysis (Bulletin 17C), Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers, vol. 37, No. 1, https://doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2017.37.1.0247, pp. 247-253.

Son, Chanyoung, Lee, Taesam, England, John F., and Park, Mujong (2016) Revisiting Design Flood Estimation for Multi-Purpose Dams in South Korea Following the Enhanced Frequency Analysis in Bulletin 17C, J. Korean Soc. Hazard Mitig., vol. 16 no. 6, https://doi.org/10.9798/KOSHAM.2016.16.6.369, pp. 369-378.

England, J.F. Jr., Julien, P.Y., and Velleux, M.L. (2014) Physically-Based Extreme Flood Frequency Analysis using Stochastic Storm Transposition and Paleoflood Data on Large Watersheds, J. Hydrol., 510, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.12.021, pp. 228-245.

Cohn, T.A., England, J.F. Jr., Berenbrock, C., Mason, R.R., Stedinger, J.R., and Lamontagne, J.R. (2013) A Generalized Grubbs-Beck Test Statistic for Detecting Multiple Potentially-Influential Low Outliers in Flood Series, Water Resour. Res., vol 49, https//doi.org/10.1002/wrcr.20392. pp. 5047-5058.

England, J.F. Jr. (2012) Reply to Discussion by R. French, Flood Frequency and Design Flood Estimation Procedures in the United States: Progress and Challenges, Australian Journal of Water Resources, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 16(1), pp. 85-89.

Velleux, M., Redman, A., Paquin, P., Santore, R., England, J.F. Jr., and Julien, P.Y. (2012) Exposure Assessment Framework for Antimicrobial Copper Use in Urbanized Areas. Envi. Sci. Technol., 46 (12), https://doi.org/10.1021/es204452w, pp. 6723–6732.

England, J.F. Jr. (2011) Flood Frequency and Design Flood Estimation Procedures in the United States: Progress and Challenges, Australian Journal of Water Resources, Institution of Engineers, Australia, 15(1), pp. 33-46, https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2011.11465388

England, J.F. Jr., Godaire, J.E., Klinger, R.E., and Bauer, T.R. (2010) Paleohydrologic bounds and extreme flood frequency of the Arkansas River Basin, Colorado, USA. Geomorphology, 124, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.07.021, pp. 1-16.

England, J.F. Jr. (2010) Shape of Upper Tail? Interactive Discussion Comments on: "Estimation of high return period flood quantiles using additional non-systematic information with upper bounded statistical models", Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 7, 5413-5440, SC C2508, https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-7-5413-2010 Authors: B. A. Botero and F. Frances.

Velleux, M., England, J.F. Jr. and Julien, P.Y. (2008) TREX: Spatially distributed model to assess watershed contaminant transport and fate. Sci. Total Environ., 404 (1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.053 , pp. 113-128.

England, J.F. Jr., Velleux, M.L. and Julien, P.Y. (2007) Two-dimensional simulations of extreme floods on a large watershed. J. Hydrol., 347(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.034, pp. 229-241.

Javier, J.R., Smith, J.A., England, J., Baeck, M.L., Steiner, M. and Ntelekos, A.A. (2007) The climatology of extreme rainfall and flooding from orographic thunderstorm systems in the upper Arkansas River Basin. Water Resour. Res., 43 (10), W10410, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006WR005093, 13 p.

Vogel, R.M., Matalas, N.C., England, J.F. and Castellarin, A. (2007) An assessment of exceedance probabilities of envelope curves. Water Resour. Res. 43 (7), W07403, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006WR005586, 11 p.

Velleux, M., Julien, P.Y., Rojas-Sanchez, R., Clements, W.H. and England, J. (2006) Simulation of metals transport and toxicity at a mine-impacted watershed: California Gulch, Colorado. Envi. Sci. Technol. 40 (22), https://doi.org/10.1021/es0608592 pp. 6996-7004.

England, J.F. Jr., Salas, J.D., and Jarrett, R.D. (2003) Comparisons of two moments-based estimators that utilize historical and paleoflood data for the log-Pearson Type III distribution. Water Resour. Res. 39 (9), pp. SWC-5-1 – SWC-5-16, https://doi.org/10.1029/2002WR001791.

England, J.F. Jr., Jarrett, R.D., and Salas, J.D. (2003) Data-based comparisons of moments estimators that use historical and paleoflood data. J. Hydrol. 278 (1-4), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00141-0 pp. 170-194.

BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER-REVIEWED):

Vogel, R.M., Castellarin, A., Matalas, N.C., England, J.F., and Zafirakou, A. (2019) Hydrologic Record Events, Chapter 12 in Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic Variables: Methods and Applications, Edited by Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu; Jose D. Salas; Jery R. Stedinger; pp. 491-536, https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784415177.ch12

Julien, P. Velleux, M., Rojas, R. and England, J.F. Jr. (2006) Modeling Watershed Erosion with CASC2D. In River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM 2005, Parker and García (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 1089-1098.

Jarrett, R.D. and England, J.F. Jr. (2002) Reliability of paleostage indicators for paleoflood studies. In Ancient Floods, Modern Hazards: Principles and Applications of Paleoflood Hydrology, P.K. House, R.H. Webb, V.R. Baker and D.R. Levish (eds.), American Geophysical Union Water Science and Application Series vol. 5, pp. 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1029/WS005p0091

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

England, J.F. Jr., Nicholson, T.J. and Clemetson, D.J. (2010) Extreme Storm Event Assessments for Nuclear Facilities and Dam Safety. Proceedings, Fourth Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 28-Jul 1, 2010, 5 p.

England, J.F. Jr. and Cohn, T.A. (2008) Bulletin 17B Flood Frequency Revisions: Practical Software and Test Comparison Results, American Society of Civil Engineers, EWRI World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, May 13-16, 2008, Honolulu, HI, 11 p. (PRESENTED)

England, J.F. Jr. and Swain, R.E. (2008) Extreme Flood Probability Estimation for Dam Safety, 28th United States Society on Dams Annual Conference, April 28-30, 2008, Portland, OR, 12 p. (PRESENTED)

England, J.F. Jr. and Cohn, T.A. (2007) Scientific and Practical Considerations Related to Revising Bulletin 17B: The Case for Improved Treatment of Historical Information and Low Outliers, American Society of Civil Engineers, EWRI World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, May 15-19, 2007, Tampa, FL, 9 p. (PRESENTED)

England, J.F. Jr., Julien, P.Y, Velleux, M.L., and Smith, J.A. (2005) Distributed Modeling of Extreme Floods on Large Watersheds, American Society of Civil Engineers, EWRI World Water & Environmental Resources Congress, May 15-19, 2005, Anchorage, AK, Abstract ID 8345, 12 p. (PRESENTED)

Jarrett, R.D., England, J.F. Jr., Tomlinson, E.M., Yanosky, T.M., and Swain, R.E. (2002) Paleoflood Hydrology, Dam Safety, and Floodplain Management. Paper No. 20 in Workshop on Hydrologic Research needs for Dam Safety, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center Seminar Proceedings SP-29, November 14-15, 2001, Davis, CA, pp. 139-155. https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/publications/SeminarProceedings/SP-29.pdf

England, J.F. Jr. (2000) A Simple Moments-Based Estimator That Utilizes Historical And Paleohydrologic Information, American Society of Civil Engineers, Joint Conference on Water Resources Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management July 30 - August 2, 2000, Minneapolis, MN, 10 p. (PRESENTED)

England, J.F. Jr., Salas, J.D., and Jarrett, R.D. (1998) A Comparison of Moments-based Estimators for Flood Frequency Analysis That Incorporate Historical Information. Proceedings, First Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference, Las Vegas, NV, by the Subcommittee on Hydrology of the Interagency Committee on Water Data, pp. 4-37 - 4-44. (PRESENTED)

TECHNICAL REPORTS:

Smith, J.A. and England, J.F. Jr. (2021) Seminal Papers in Flood Hydrology for Dam and Levee Safety [draft report in revision]. RMC-TD-2021-01, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Risk Management Center, 534 p.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2020) Developing Paleoflood Information for Flood Frequency Analysis. Engineering Technical Letter No. 1100-2-4, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C., 34 p.

England, J.F. Jr., Cohn, T.A., Faber, B.A., Stedinger, J.R., Thomas, W.O. Jr., Veilleux, A.G., Kiang, J.E., and Mason, R.R. (2019) Guidelines for Determining Flood Flow Frequency--Bulletin 17C (ver 1.1). U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods Book 4 Chap. B5, 148 p. https://doi.org/10.3133/tm4B5

Cohn, T.A., Barth, N.A., England, J.F., Faber, B., Mason, R.R. and Stedinger, J.R. (2019) Evaluation of Recommended Revisions to Bulletin 17B. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1064, 141 p. https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171064

England, J.F. Jr. and Stedinger, J.R. (2017) Peer Review of TVA Probabilistic Flood Hazard Approach, Report RMC-TR-2017-06, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Risk Management Center, Lakewood, CO, 18 p.

Bureau of Reclamation (2013) Chapter 2: Hydrologic Considerations. Design Standards 14, Appurtenant Structures for Dams (Spillway and Outlet Works) Design Standards. Final. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, November, (England, J.F., coauthor and technical approval)

Cohn, T.A., England, J.F., Faber, B. and Barth, N.A. (2013) Final Recommended Revisions to Bulletin 17B Based on Hydrologic Frequency Work Group Meeting Comments and Feedback. Memorandum submitted to Hydrologic Frequency Analysis Work Group, Subcommittee on Hydrology, revised June 12, 10 p.

Nicholson, T.J. and Reed, W. (2013) Proceedings of the Workshop on Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment (PFHA), U.S. NRC Headquarters, Rockville, Maryland, January 29-31, 2013 (J.F. England - organizing committee; contributing author) https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/conference/cp0302/

Caldwell, R.J., Sankovich, V.L. and England, J.F. Jr. (2011) Synthesis of Extreme Storm Rainfall and Probable Maximum Precipitation in the Southeastern U.S. Pilot Region, for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, December, 39 p. Also published by Nuclear Regulatory Commission as Caldwell et al. (2023) NUREG/CR-7133 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/contract/cr7133/index.html 

Caldwell, R.J., England, J.F. Jr., and Sankovich, V.L. (2011) Application of Radar-Rainfall Estimates to Probable Maximum Precipitation in the Carolinas, for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, December, 94 p. Also published by Nuclear Regulatory Commission as Caldwell et al. (2022) NUREG/CR-7132 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/contract/cr7132/index.html 

England, J.F. Jr., Sankovich, V.L. and Caldwell, R.J. (2011) Review of Probable Maximum Precipitation Procedures and Databases used to Develop Hydrometeorological Reports, for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, December, 79 p. Also published by Nuclear Regulatory Commission as England et al. (2020) NUREG/CR-7131 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/contract/cr7131/index.html 

England, J.F. Jr., Sankovich, V.L., Sutley, D.E., Dworak, F.J., Levish, D.R. and Godaire, J.E. (2011) Hydrologic Hazards for Dam Safety Risk Analysis Training Notes, Version 1.0, August, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO.

Logan, W.S. and Helsabeck, L.J. (2009) Research and Applications Needs in Flood Hydrology Science: A Summary of the October 15, 2008 Workshop of the Planning Committee on Hydrologic Science, (J.F. England – workshop participant; rapporteur writing summaries) National Academy Press, Washington, DC, https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/12606/

Velleux, M.L., England, J.F. and Julien, P.Y. (2006) TREX Watershed Modeling Framework User's Manual: Model Theory and Description. Department of Civil Engineering, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, August, 83 p.

Swain, R.E., England, J.F. Jr., Bullard, K.L. and Raff, D.A. (2006) Guidelines for Evaluating Hydrologic Hazards, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, 83 p.

England, J.F. Jr. (2005) Improved Flood Frequency Extrapolation Procedures Using a Physically-Based, Distributed Watershed Model. Dam Safety Research Report 05-01, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, January, 30 p. and appendices. https://www.usbr.gov/damsafety/TechDev/index.html

Swain, R.E., England, J.F. Jr., Bullard, K.L. and Raff, D.A. (2004) Hydrologic Hazard Curve Estimating Procedures. Dam Safety Research Report DS-04-08, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, 79 p. https://www.usbr.gov/damsafety/TechDev/index.html

England, J.F. Jr. (2004) Review of Selected Large Flood Estimates in the United States for the U.S. Geological Survey. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, August, 14 p. and appendices.

England, J.F. Jr. (2003) Probabilistic Extreme Flood Hydrographs that Use Paleoflood Data for Dam Safety Applications. Dam Safety Research Report 03-03, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, January, 29 p. https://www.usbr.gov/damsafety/TechDev/index.html

England, J.F. Jr. (2003) Stochastic Modeling Methods. Dam Safety Research Report 03-04, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, January, 31 p. and appendices. https://www.usbr.gov/damsafety/TechDev/index.html

England, J.F. Jr. (2002) Stochastic Event Flood Model Improvements and Extreme Storm Analyses for A.R. Bowman Watershed. Dam Safety Research Report 03-02, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, December, 22 p. and appendices. https://www.usbr.gov/damsafety/TechDev/index.html

Bureau of Reclamation (2002) Interim Guidelines for Addressing the Risk of Extreme Hydrologic Events. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, August, 3 p. (England, J.F., principal author).

England, J.F. Jr., Klinger, R.E., Camrud, M. and Klawon, J.E. (2001) Guidelines For Preparing Preliminary Flood Frequency Analysis Reports for Comprehensive Facility Reviews, version 1.0. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, September, 16 p. and appendices.

England, J.F. Jr. (1999) Draft User’s manual for program EMA, At-Site Flood Frequency Analysis with Historical/Paleohydrologic Data. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, July, 52 p.

Bureau of Reclamation (1999) A Framework for Characterizing Extreme Floods for Dam Safety Risk Assessment. Prepared by Utah State University and Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, November, 67 p.

McKee, T.B. and Doesken, N.J. (1997) Colorado Extreme Storm Precipitation Data Study, Climatology Report #97-1, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 34 p. and appendices (includes draft analyses by England, J.). https://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/pdfs/Climo_97-1_Extreme_ppt.pdf