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Overview

Pierre Y. Julien is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their scholarly work spans a range of subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science, and Ecology.

Their research focuses on several main topics, notably Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydraulic Flow and Structures, Climate Variability and Models, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Geospatial analysis and model development for specific degradation in South Korea using model tree data mining (2021, CATENA)
  • Teleconnection of ENSO extreme events and precipitation variability over the United States (2023, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Test and Improvement of 1D Routing Algorithms for Dam-Break Floods (2020, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering)
  • Sediment regimes in South Korea (2021, River Research and Applications)
  • Rainfall erosivity variability over the United States associated with large-scale climate variations by El Niño/southern oscillation (2023, CATENA)

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Woochul Kang
  • Chun-Yao Yang
  • Seungho Lee
  • Jai Hong Lee

Their work has been published in multiple venues, with a notable frequency in:

  • Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • CATENA
  • River Research and Applications
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Hydro-environment Research

Pierre Y. Julien has also contributed to academic literature through book publication, including the title Essentials of Hydraulics published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Erosion and sedimentation.

    Pierre Y. Julien

  • Two‐Dimensional Water Flood and Mudflow Simulation

    J. S. O'Brien;P. Y. Julien;W. T. Fullerton

  • Laboratory Analysis of Mudflow Properties

    Jim S. O'Brien;Pierre Y. Julien

  • RASTER‐BASED HYDROLOGIC MODELING OF SPATIALLY‐VARIED SURFACE RUNOFF

    Pierre Y. Julien;Bahram Saghafian;Fred L. Ogden

  • SCOUR DOWNSTREAM OF GRADE-CONTROL STRUCTURES

    Noel E. Bormann;Pierre Y. Julien

  • Sand-dune geometry of large rivers during floods

    Pierre Y. Julien;Gerrit J. Klaassen

  • Sediment Transport Capacity of Overland Flow

    P. Y. Julien;D. B. Simons

  • Mechanics of jet scour downstream of a headcut

    O. R. Stein;P. Y. Julien;C. V. Alonso

  • Shear Stress in Smooth Rectangular Open- Channel Flows

    Junke Guo;Pierre Y. Julien

  • Runoff sensitivity to temporal and spatial rainfall variability at runoff plane and small basin scales

    Fred L. Ogden;Pierre Y. Julien

  • Rheology of Hyperconcentrations

    Pierre Y. Julien;Yongqiang Lan

  • River mechanics: Introduction to river mechanics

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  • Runoff model sensitivity to radar rainfall resolution

    Fred L. Ogden;Pierre Y. Julien

  • Case Study: Bed Resistance of Rhine River during 1998 Flood

    P. Y. Julien;G. J. Klaassen;W. B. M. Ten Brinke;A. W. E. Wilbers

  • Numerical simulation of the inception of channel meandering

    Jennifer G. Duan;Pierre Y. Julien

  • The two-dimensional upland erosion model CASC2D-SED.

    Billy E. Johnson;Pierre Y Julien;Darcy K Molnar;Chester C. Watson

  • Direct measurements of secondary currents in a meandering sand-bed river

    C. R. Thorne;L. W. Zevenbergen;J. C. Pitlick;S. Rais

  • Downstream Hydraulic Geometry of Alluvial Channels

    Jong-Seok Lee;Pierre Y. Julien

  • Numerical simulation of meandering evolution

    Jennifer G. Duan;Pierre Y. Julien

  • Alluvial Channel Geometry: Theory and Applications

    Pierre Y. Julien;Jayamurni Wargadalam

  • Grid-Size Effects on Surface Runoff Modeling

    D. K. Molnár;P. Y. Julien

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred L. Ogden
Fred L. Ogden National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Daryl B. Simons
Daryl B. Simons Colorado State University
Willi H. Hager
Willi H. Hager ETH Zurich
Robert Ettema
Robert Ettema Colorado State University
Vijay P. Singh
Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University
David R. Maidment
David R. Maidment The University of Texas at Austin
Marcelo H. Garcia
Marcelo H. Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert L. Runkel
Robert L. Runkel United States Geological Survey
Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Kenneth E. Bencala
Kenneth E. Bencala United States Geological Survey

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