Thomas McMahon

Baseflow and transmission loss: A review

Thomas A McMahon, Rory J Nathan

Journal article  |  2021  |  WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER

There is an extensive literature dealing with the interaction between groundwater and surface water, and this includes major revie..

Historical development of rainfall-runoff modeling

Murray C Peel, Thomas A McMahon

Journal article  |  2020  |  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water

Rainfall-runoff models are used across academia and industry, and the number and type have proliferated over time. In this primer ..

Australian dams and reservoirs within a global setting

TA McMahon, C Petheram

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australasian Journal of Water Resource

There has been a resurgence of interest in the construction of large dams worldwide. This study examined many dams from around the..

Assessing the degree of hydrologic stress due to climate change

RJ Nathan, TA McMahon, MC Peel, A Horne

Journal article  |  2019  |  Climatic Change: an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the description, causes and implications of climatic change

Hydrologists are commonly involved in impact, adaption and vulnerability assessments for climate change projections. This paper pr..

Dams, dam costs and damnable cost overruns

C Petheram, TA McMahon

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Hydrology X

Major restructuring including commercialisation of the water authorities in Australia during the past several decades has resulted..

Uncertainty in stage-discharge rating curves: application to Australian Hydrologic Reference Stations data

Thomas A McMahon, Murray C Peel

Journal article  |  2019  |  HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES JOURNAL-JOURNAL DES SCIENCES HYDROLOGIQUES

The purpose of this paper is to determine uncertainty in the gauged range of the stage–gauged discharge relationship for 622 ratin..

Reply to discussion by R French and M Jones on 'recommended practice for hydrologic investigations and reporting'

RJ Nathan, TA McMahon

Journal article  |  2018  |  AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES

Recommended practice for hydrologic investigations and reporting

RJ Nathan, TA McMahon

Journal article  |  2017  |  AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES

This paper discusses the use of methods commonly used by engineering hydrologists in undertaking surface water investigations. Whi..

Historical developments of models for estimating evaporation using standard meteorological data

TA McMahon, BL Finlayson, MC Peel

Journal article  |  2016  |  WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER

Evaporation plays a key role in the hydrology of a catchment. World-wide actual terrestrial evaporation is approximately two third..

Assessment of precipitation and temperature data from CMIP3 global climate models for hydrologic simulation

TA McMahon, MC Peel, DJ Karoly

Journal article  |  2015  |  HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES

The objective of this paper is to identify better performing Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) global climate ..