João P. Leitão

Dr. João P. Leitão
Senior scientist (tenured)
Siedlungswasserwirtschaft, SWW
EAWAG
Überlandstrasse 133
CH-8600 Dübendorf
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 58 765 67 14
Phone2: +41 (0) 58 765 50 45
Fax: +41 (0) 58 765 53 89
E-mail: joaopaulo.leitao(at)eawag.ch
URL Institution: www.eawag.ch/forschung/sww/index
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of João P. Leitão (up to ten) :
Chaudhary, P., Leitão, J.P., D’Aronco, S., Perraudin, N., Obozinski, G., Perez-Cruz, F., Schindler, K., Wegner, J.D., Russo, S. (2022). Flood Uncertainty Estimation using Deep Ensembles. Water, 14, 2980. doi: 10.3390/w14192980

Peleg, N., Ban, N., Gibson, M.J., Chen, A.S., Paschalis, A., Burlando, P., Leitão, J.P. (2022). Mapping storm spatial profiles for flood impact assessments. Advances in Water Resources, 166, 104258. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104258

Guo, Z., Moosavi, V., Leitão, J.P. (2022). Data-driven rapid flood prediction mapping with catchment generalizability. Journal of Hydrology, 609, 127726. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127726

Harpaz, C., Russo, S., Leitão, J.P., Penn, R. (2022). Potential of supervised machine learning algorithms for estimating the impact of water efficient scenarios on solids accumulation in sewers. Water Research, 216, 118247. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118247

Figueroa, A., Hadengue, B., Leitão, J.P., Rieckermann, J., Blumensaat, F. (2021). A distributed heat transfer model for thermal-hydraulic analyses in sewer networks. Water Research, 204, 117649. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117649

Wang, W., Leitão, J.P.*, Wani, O. (2021). Is flow control in space-constrained drainage networks effective? A performance assessment for combined sewer overflow reduction. Environmental Research, 111688. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111688

Jamali, B., Haghighat, E., Ignjatovi?, A., Leitão, J.P., Deleti?, A. (2021). Machine Learning for Accelerating 2D Flood Models: potential and challenges. Hydrological Processes. doi: 10.1002/hyp.14064

Guo, Z., Leitão, J.P., Simões, N.E., Moosavi, V. (2021). Data-driven flood emulation: speeding up urban flood predictions by deep convolutional neural networks. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 14(1). doi: 10.1111/jfr3.12684

Joshi, P., Leitão, J.P., Maurer, M., Bach, P.M. (2021). Not all SUDS are created equal: Impact of different approaches on Combined Sewer Overflows. Water Research, 191, 116780. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116780

Browne, S., Lintern, A., Jamali, B., Leitão, J.P., Bach, P.M. (2021). Stormwater management impacts of small urbanising towns: the necessity of investigating the “devil in the detail”. Science of the Total Environment, 757, 143835. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143835


Expertise of João P. Leitão:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering
Topic HydrospherePrecipitation / Runoff
Spatial ZonesUrban
Spatial ScaleNational / Cultural
Local / Community
Time FrameRecent / Today
Future
Statistical FocusExtreme Events
Mean Change / Trends
Time ScaleSeasonal / Annual
MethodsData Collection
Modeling
Applied Research / Technology
GeoForum Geo-TechnologyHydraulics and Hydromechanics
Cartography
Geoinformatics
GeoForum Environmental-TechnologyCivil and Rural Engineering
Spatial Planning

Specialties of João P. Leitão:
Floods; Hydroinformatics; Risk Assessment; Urban Water Systems; GIS

Last update: 9/23/22
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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