Vazken Andréassian
Hydrologue
Domaines de compétence
Hydrologist
Head of the Hydrology Research Team, Cemagref Antony
Adjunct Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
Fields of expertise
Hydrology – Watershed Management – Water Resources – Hydrological Modelling – Floods – Low-flows – Forest Hydrology
Degrees
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2005 |
Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris |
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2002 |
PhD in Hydrology, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris |
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1992 |
Ingénieur du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, ENGREF, Paris |
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1992 |
Master of Sciences, Watershed Management, University of Arizona, Tucson |
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1990 |
Agricultural Engineer, Institut National Agronomique, Paris |
Languages
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French, English & Armenian |
fluent |
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German |
read & spoken |
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Russian |
notions |
Publications in Scientific Journals
Lerat, J., V. Andréassian, C. Perrin, J. Vaze, J.M. Perraud, P. Ribstein and C. Loumagne. 2012. Do internal flow measurements improve the calibration of rainfall-runoff models? Water Resources Research, in press.
Andréassian, V., N. Le Moine, C. Perrin, T. Jakeman, MH Ramos, L. Oudin, T. Mathevet and J. Lerat. 2011. All that glitters is not gold: the case of hydrological models' calibration. Hydrological Processes.
Pushpalatha, R., C. Perrin, N. L. Moine, and V. Andréassian. 2012. A review of efficiency criteria suitable for evaluating low-flow simulations, Journal of Hydrology, 420–421: 171–182.
Lerat, J., C. Perrin, V. Andréassian, C. Loumagne, & P. Ribstein. 2012. Towards robust methods to couple lumped rainfall–runoff models and hydraulic models: A sensitivity analysis on the Illinois River. Journal of Hydrology, 418-419: 123–135
Andréassian, V., J. Lerat, N. Le Moine and C. Perrin. 2012. Neighbors: Nature’s own hydrological models. Journal of Hydrology, 414-415: 49-58, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.007.
Pushpalatha, R., C. Perrin, N. L. Moine, T. Mathevet, and V. Andréassian. 2011. A downward structural sensitivity analysis of hydrological models to improve low-flow simulation, Journal of Hydrology, 411(1-2): 66-76, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.09.034.
Lacaze, Y., Chesneau, S., Raimbault, E., Piotte, O., Silva, J.P., Perrin, C., Andréassian, V., Berthet, L., Coron, L. & Fortier-Filion, T.C., 2011. Les modèles de prévision opérationnels d’aujourd’hui auraient-ils été fiables sur la crue de 1910 ? Analyse rétrospective critique sur une base de données de 1910. La Houille Blanche, 1: 22-29, DOI: 10.1051/lhb/2011002.
Valéry, A., V. Andréassian, & C. Perrin. 2010. Regionalization of precipitation and air temperature over high-altitude catchments - learning from outliers. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 55(6): 928 - 940
Boldetti, G., M. Riffard, V. Andréassian, & L. Oudin. 2010. Data-set cleansing practices and hydrological regionalization: is there any valuable information among outliers? Hydrological Sciences Journal, 55(6): 941 - 951
Berthet, L., V. Andréassian, C. Perrin, & C. Loumagne. 2010. How significant are quadratic criteria? Part 1. How many years are necessary to ensure the data-independence of a quadratic criterion value? Hydrological Sciences Journal, 55(6): 1051 - 1062
Berthet, L., V. Andréassian, C. Perrin, & C. Loumagne. 2010. How significant are quadratic criteria? Part 2. On the relative contribution of large flood events to the value of a quadratic criterion. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 55(6): 1063 - 1073
Randrianasolo, A., M.H. Ramos, G. Thirel, V. Andréassian, & E. Martin. 2010. Comparing the scores of hydrological ensemble forecasts issued by two different hydrological models. Atmospheric Science Letters, 11: 100-107.
Andréassian, V., N. Le Moine, T. Mathevet, J. Lerat, L. Berthet, C. Perrin. 2009. The hunting of the hydrological snark. Hydrological Processes, 23(4):651-654.
Oudin, L., V. Andréassian, J. Lerat & C. Michel. 2008. Has land cover a significant impact on mean annual streamflow? An international assessment using 1508 catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 357(3-4): 303-316.
Andréassian, V., C. Loumagne, T. Mathevet, C. Michel, L. Oudin, C. Perrin. 2007. What is really undermining hydrologic science today? Hydrological Processes, 21:2819-2822.
Perrin, C., Oudin, L., Andréassian, V., Rojas-Serna, C., Michel, C. & Mathevet, T., 2007. Impact of limited streamflow knowledge on the efficiency and the parameters of rainfall-runoff models. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 52(1): 131-151.
Anctil, F., Lauzon, N., Andréassian, V., Oudin, L. & Perrin, C., 2006. Improvement of rainfall-runoff forecasts through mean areal rainfall optimization. Journal of Hydrology, 328(3-4): 717-725.
Mouelhi, S., Michel, C., Perrin, C. & Andréassian, V., 2006. Linking stream flow to rainfall at the annual time step: the Manabe bucket model revisited. Journal of Hydrology, 328(1-2): 283-296.
Perrin, C., Dilks, C., Bärlund, I., Payan, J.L. & Andréassian, V., 2006. Use of simple rainfall-runoff models as a baseline for the benchmarking of the hydrological component of complex catchment models. Large Rivers (Archiv für Hydrobiologie Suppl.), 17(1-2): 75-96.
Perrin, C., Andréassian, V. & Michel, C., 2006. Simple benchmark models as a basis for criteria of model efficiency. Large Rivers (Archiv für Hydrobiologie Suppl.), 17(1-2): 221-244.
Oudin, L., Perrin, C., Mathevet, T., Andréassian, V. & Michel, C., 2006. Impact of biased and randomly corrupted inputs on the efficiency and the parameters of watershed models. Journal of Hydrology, 320:62-83.
Duan, Q., Schaake, J., Andréassian, V., Franks, S., Goteti, G., Gupta, H.V., Gusev, Y.M., Habets, F., Hall, A., Hay, L., Hogue, T., Huang, M., Leavesley, G., Liang, X., Nasonova, O.N., Noilhan, J., Oudin, L., Sorooshian, S., Wagener, T. & Wood, E.F., 2006. Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): an overview of science strategy and major results from the second and third workshops. Journal of Hydrology, 320:3-17.
Mouelhi, S., C. Michel, C. Perrin, & V. Andréassian, 2006. Stepwise development of a two-parameter monthly water balance model. Journal of Hydrology, 318: 200-214.
Oudin, L., C. Michel, V. Andréassian, F. Anctil, & C. Loumagne, 2005. Should Bouchet's hypothesis be taken into account for estimating evapotranspiration in rainfall-runoff modeling? An assessment over 308 catchments. Hydrological Processes, 19: 4093-4106.
Moulin, L., Perrin, C., Michel, C. & Andréassian, V., 2005. Prise en compte de barrages-réservoirs dans un modèle pluie-débit global : application au cas du bassin de la Seine amont. La Houille Blanche (5): 79-87.
Oudin, L., F. Hervieu, C. Michel, C. Perrin, V. Andréassian, F. Anctil, & C. Loumagne, 2005. Which potential evapotranspiration input for a lumped rainfall-runoff model? - Part 2 - Towards a simple and efficient potential evapotranspiration model for rainfall-runoff modelling. Journal of Hydrology, 303(1-4): 290-306.
Cosandey, C., V. Andréassian, C. Martin, J.-F. Didon-Lescot, J. Lavabre, N. Folton, N. Mathys, & D. Richard, 2005. The hydrological impact of the Mediterranean forest: a review of French research. Journal of Hydrology, 301(1-4): 235-249.
Andréassian, V., 2004. Waters and Forests: from historical controversy to scientific debate. Journal of Hydrology, 291(1-2): 1-27.
Andréassian, V., 2004. Couvert forestier et comportement hydrologique des bassins versants. La Houille Blanche, n°2: 31-35
Anctil, F., C. Perrin, & V. Andréassian, 2004. Impact of the length of observed records on the performance of ANN and of conceptual parsimonious rainfall-runoff forecasting models. Environmental Modelling and Software, 19(4): 357-368.
Andréassian, V., C. Perrin, & C. Michel, 2004. Impact of imperfect potential evapotranspiration knowledge on the efficiency and parameters of watershed models. Journal of Hydrology, 286: 19-35.
Anctil, F., C. Michel, C. Perrin, & V. Andréassian, 2004. A soil moisture index as an auxiliary ANN input for stream flow forecasting. Journal of Hydrology, 286: 155-167.
Anctil, F., C. Perrin, & V. Andréassian, 2003. ANN output updating of lumped conceptual rainfall-runoff forecasting models. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 39(5): 1269-1280.
Perrin, C., C. Michel, & V. Andréassian, 2003. Improvement of a parsimonious model for streamflow simulation. Journal of Hydrology, 279: 275-289.
Wasson, J.-G., M.-H. Tusseau-Vuillemin, V. Andréassian, C. Perrin, J.-B. Faure, O. Barreteau, M. Bousquet, & B. Chastan, 2003. What kind of water models are needed for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive? Examples from France. International Journal of River Basin Management, 1(2): 1-11.
Michel, C., C. Perrin, & V. Andréassian, 2003. The exponential store: a correct formulation for rainfall–runoff modelling. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 48(1): 109-124.
Lavabre, J., V. Andréassian, & O. Laroussinie, 2002. Les eaux et les forêts. La forêt : un outil de gestion des eaux? La Houille Blanche, n°3: 72-77.
Andréassian, V., C. Perrin, C. Michel, I. Usart-Sanchez & J. Lavabre, 2001. Impact of Imperfect Rainfall Knowledge on the Efficiency and the Parameters of Watershed Models. Journal of Hydrology, 250 (1-4): 206-223.
Perrin, C., C. Michel & V. Andréassian, 2001. Does a large number of parameters enhance model performance? Comparative assessment of common catchment model structures on 429 catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 242 (3-4): 275-301.
Meybeck, M., Z. Idlafkih, N. Fauchon & V. Andréassian. 1999. Spatial and temporal variability of Total Suspended Solids in the Seine basin. Hydrobiologia, 410: 295-306.
Popular Science Books
Margat, J. and V. Andréassian, 2008. L’eau, idées reçues [Water, commonplace ideas]. Editions le Cavalier Bleu, Paris, 125 p.
Andréassian, V. and J. Lerat, 2007. Le surprenant cycle de l’eau [The amazing water cycle]. Editions le Pommier, Paris, 59 p. (for children)
- [Translated in Chinese: 2010]
- [Translated in Spanish: El sorprendente mundo del agua, Oniro, Barcelona, 2008]
- [Translated in Italian: L'acqua… dal fiume al bicchiere, Dedalo, Bari, 2008]
Andréassian, V. and J. Margat, 2005. Allons-nous manquer d’eau ? [Will we lack water?] Editions le Pommier, Paris, 59 p.
- [Translated in Korean: 2007]
Andréassian, V., 2005. Pourquoi les rivières débordent-elles ? [Why do river overtop their banks?] Editions le Pommier, Paris, 63 p.
Scientific Books
Andréassian, V., V. Sarkissian, W. Chełmicki, V.Al. Stănescu and R. Moussa, 2005. Dictionary of hydrological engineering: English, French, Armenian, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Arabic. Cemagref éditions, Antony. 214 p.
http://www.cemagref.fr/webgr/Download/LexiqueHydro.pdf
Lavabre, J. and V. Andréassian, 2000. Eaux et forêts. La forêt : un outil de gestion des eaux ? [Waters and Forests. Can forest be a water management tool?] Cemagref éditions, Antony. 147 p.
Popular science articles
Margat, J. & V. Andréassian. 2010. L'eau a-t-elle un prix ? [Has water a price?] Analyse Financière n°26: 24-25.
Andréassian, V., & J. Margat 2010. Une ressource naturelle pas comme les autres. [Water: a different natural resource] Analyse Financière n°26: 20-21.
Andréassian, V. 2008. Quel effet la forêt a-t-elle sur les écoulements ? [What is the impact of forest on streamflow?] Dossier Pour la Science (L'eau. Attention fragile !) n°58: 38-41.
Perrin, C. and V. Andréassian, 2008. Crues et inondations : phénomènes naturels sous surveillance. [Floods and inundations: natural phenomena] Dossier Pour la Science (L'eau. Attention fragile !) n°58: 48-50.
Andréassian, V. 2006. L’homme est-il responsable des inondations ? [Is man responsible for flooding?] Wapiti n° 235, p. 20-23. (for children)
Articles in technical journals
Andréassian, V., J. Margat & G. de Marsily. 2009. Les ressources en eau. [Water resources] Dossier Spécial du BRGM '10 enjeux des géosciences', p. 76-89.
Andréassian, V. 2008. Quelles questions se pose-t-on encore au sujet du lien entre couvert forestier et hydrologie ? [Which questions remain on the link between forest cover and hydrology?] RDV Techniques ONF, n°22: 25-29.
Hurand, A., and Andréassian, V., 2003. Le couvert forestier et l’hydrologie des basins versants. [Forest cover and catchment hydrology] RDV Techniques ONF, n°2: 37-40.
Publications in collective books
Margat, J. & V. Andréassian. 2010. L'homme est responsable de l'augmentation des inondations. In: Collectif, Le Grand Livre des idées reçues. Le Cavalier Bleu, Paris, p. 176-178.
Perrin, C., C. Michel & V. Andréassian. 2010. A set of hydrological models. In: Tanguy, J.-M., editor. Mathematical Models, Environmental Hydraulics series, p. 493-509.
Perrin, C., C. Michel & V. Andréassian. 2010. Familles de modèles en hydrologie. [Families of models in hydrology] In: Tanguy, J.-M., editor. Traité d'hydraulique environnementale, vol. 4. p. 335-353.
Berthet, L., Ramos, M.-H., Perrin, C., Andréassian, V. & Loumagne, C. 2009. Can discharge assimilation methods be used to improve flood forecasting when few data are available? IAHS Publ. 333, p.
Margat, J. & V. Andréassian. 2009. Les problèmes de pollution des eaux vont croissants. [Water pollution problems are increasing] In: Collectif, Le Grand Livre des idées reçues. Le Cavalier Bleu, Paris, p. 179-182.
Margat, J. & V. Andréassian. 2008. Les pays riches gaspillent plus d’eau que les pays pauvres. [Rich countries waste more water that poor ones] In: Collectif, Le Grand Livre des idées reçues. Le Cavalier Bleu, Paris, p. 170-172.
Margat, J. & V. Andréassian. 2008. L’eau sera un enjeu de conflits au XXIème siècle. [Water will be a matter of conflict in the 21st century] In: Collectif, Le Grand Livre des idées reçues. Le Cavalier Bleu, Paris, p. 244-248.
Le Moine, N., Andréassian, V., Perrin, C. and Michel, C., 2007. 'Outlier' catchments: what can we learn from them in terms of prediction uncertainty in rainfall-runoff modelling? In: E. Boegh et al. (Editors), Quantification and Reduction of Predictive Uncertainty for Sustainable Water Resources Management, IAHS Publication 313. IAHS Press, Wallingford, pp. 195-203.
Oudin, L., Andréassian, V., Rojas-Serna, C., Le Moine, N. and Michel, C., 2007. Testing similarity indices to reduce predictive uncertainty in ungauged basins. In: E. Boegh et al. (Editors), Quantification and Reduction of Predictive Uncertainty for Sustainable Water Resources Management, IAHS Publication 313. IAHS Press, Wallingford, pp. 303-310.
Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), 2006. Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford. 347 p.
Andréassian, V., S. Bergström, N. Chahinian, Q. Duan, I. Littlewood, T. Mathevet, C. Michel, A. Montanari, G. Moretti, R. Moussa, O. Nasonova, K. O’Connor, E. Paquet, C. Perrin, A. Rousseau, J. Schaake, T. Wagener, Z. Xie. 2006. Catalogue of the models used in MOPEX 2004/2005. In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 41-93.
Chahinian, N., V. Andréassian, Q. Duan, V. Fortin, H. Gupta, T. Hogue, T. Mathevet, A. Montanari, G. Moretti, R. Moussa, C. Perrin, J. Schaake, T. Wagener, Z. Xie. 2006. Compilation of the MOPEX 2004 results. In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 313-338.
Chahinian, N., T. Mathevet, F. Habets, V. Andréassian. 2006. The MOPEX 2004 French database: main hydrological and morphological characteristics. In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 29-40.
Mathevet, T., C. Michel, V. Andréassian, C. Perrin. 2006. A bounded version of the Nash-Sutcliffe criterion for better model assessment on large sets of basins. In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 211-219.
Michel, C., C. Perrin, V. Andréassian, L. Oudin, T. Mathevet. 2006. Has basin-scale modelling advanced beyond empiricism? In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 108-116
Oudin, L., V. Andréassian, C. Loumagne, C. Michel. 2006. How informative is land-cover for the regionalisation of the GR4J rainfall-runoff model? Lessons of a downward approach. In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 246-255.
Rojas-Serna, C., C. Michel, C. Perrin, V. Andréassian. 2006. Ungauged catchments: How make the most of a few streamflow measurements? In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 230-236.
Wagener, T., T. Hogue, J. Schaake, Q. Duan, H. Gupta, V. Andréassian, A. Hall, G. Leavesley. 2006. The Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX): Its structure, connection to other international initiatives and future directions. In: Andréassian, V., A. Hall, N. Chahinian, J. Schaake (editors), Large sample basin experiments for hydrological model parameterization. IAHS (Red Book Series N°307), Wallingford, p. 339-346.
Perrin, C., C. Michel & V. Andréassian, 2001. Long-term low flow forecasting for French rivers by continuous rainfall-runoff modelling. Meeting of the British Hydrological Society on Continuous River Flow Simulation, Wallingford, UK, 5th July 2001, Littlewood, I.G. (Ed.), BHS Occasional Paper n° 13: 21-29.
Andréassian, V. & E. Gaume, 1998. Comment les besoins en eau évolueront-ils? Prospective à l'horizon 2025. In: J. Margat and J.-R. Tiercelin, L'eau en questions. Romillat, Paris. pp 123-148.
Meybeck, M., J.-M. Mouchel, Z. Idlafkih, V. Andréassian and S. Thibert, 1998. Transferts d’eau, de matières dissoute et particulaire dans le réseau fluvial. In: M. Meybeck, G. de Marsily and E. Fustec, La Seine en son bassin : fonctionnement écologique d’un système fluvial anthropisé. Elsevier, Paris. pp 345-389.
Theses
Andréassian, V. 1992. Comparative Hydrology of Mediterranean shrublands. Master's thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson. 139 p.
Organization of international workshops
Distinctions
- Professorship in Social Hydrology (2007)
- Tison award of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (2010)
Editing boards
- Journal of Hydrology, Assistant Editor 2009-
Affiliations
- Comité National Français des Sciences Hydrologiques (CNFSH)
- International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IASH)
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Club International d'Hydrologie Sociale
Address
Cemagref
UR Hydrosystèmes et Bioprocédés
Equipe Hydrologie
Parc de Tourvoie
BP 44
F-92163 Antony Cedex
France
Tel: +33 1 40 96 62 58
E-mail: vazken.andreassian@cemagref.fr
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