Purpose: This page contains a set of links to files, actually documents, I've written over the years for my students and research sponsors. Links to the short articles are spread over my web pages and it seemed logical to create a single repository for those things that might be of interest to students working on a variety of projects, and perhaps others who visit these pages.
Research reports are here because I've had such a devilishly difficult time of my own finding research results that are outside of the professional literature. My suspicion is that much research work is never published in a retrievable forum. This is unfortunate because those of us who consume research, professional researchers and end-users, need access to this information. So, part of the purpose of this page is to provide a single-source for the results of my work. (There will be more when I actually start posting reports here.)
All documents on this page are in PDF format. It's a natural form under Mac OS X and the reader is widely available (and free) for most operating systems.
Short Articles
Report [2.0.2]: How to Write an Engineering Report is an article I started a long time ago about the basics of writing an engineering report. This material has not changed (much) over the span of my career. One of the principal products of a professional engineer is the written report. When I started writing, I needed a guide. This is the guide I wanted.
Rational Method [20Sep06]: The Rational Method is an article I wrote for my students to introduce application of the rational method as applied here in Texas. This article is in need of editing based on recent research results completed by my team and I. It's on my list…
Thesis [0.3]: How to write a Thesis is an article I wrote about the thesis-generation process. While there are books written about writing a thesis (that sounds recursive to me!), I thought I might have something to add ot the mix, so here it is. It's still early in its development cycle, but it might be useful to my students and others. So, I'll share.
Research Reports
The following are results from research projects that I think should be broadly available. Therefore, I'm posting them here as I can ensure they are correct. Copyright varies, but because they were supported by public funds, they should be in the public domain. If you use material from these results, credit would be appreciated because these were a lot of work to prepare.
Thompson, David B., 2000. "Climatic adjustment of Natural Resources Conservation Service runoff curve numbers," final project report for Texas Department of Transportation Research Project 0–2104. This represents the results of an attempt to document adjustment of NRCS runoff curve numbers for Texas hydroclimatology. The work was sponsored by Texas Department of Transportation.
Asquith, William H., Thompson, David B., Cleveland, Theodore G., and Fang, Xing, 2006. "Unit hydrograph estimation for applicable Texas watersheds," final project report for Texas Department of Transportation Research Project 0–4193. This report represents results from development of unit hydrograph technology for Texas watersheds.
Thompson, David B., Cleveland, Theodore G., Copula, D.B., and Fang, Xing, 2008. "Loss-rate functions for selected Texas watersheds," final project report for Texas Department of Transportation Research Project 0–4193. This report represents results from analysis of measured rainfall-runoff responses of Texas watersheds to determine loss-rate functions and parameter values appropriate for Texas applications.
Thompson, David B. and Cleveland, Theodore G., 2009. "Subdivision of Texas watersheds for hydrologic modeling," final project report for Texas Department of Transportation Research Project 0–5822. This report represents results from development of guidance for watershed subdivision (when to and when not to).
