This paper describes data assimilation (DA) and adaptive forecasting techniques for flood forecasting and their application to forecasting water levels at various locations along a 120 km reach of the river Severn, United Kingdom. The methodology exploits the top-down, data-based mechanistic...

Although structural constraints such as model order and time delay have been incorporated in the continuous time system identification since its origin, the constraints on the estimated model parameters were rarely enforced. This paper proposes a continuous time system identification approach...