Saigon's river response to Typhoon Usagi

A good understanding of the hydrological cycle, and discharge in particular, in tidal rivers
enables reliable forecasting and decision making by researchers and policy makers. We
develop the work of Camenen et al. 2021 where the hydrological dynamics of the tidal
Saigon river are studied. The study proposes a low-cost technique to estimate tidallyinfluenced
river discharge based on high-frequency in-situ measurements. This technique
estimates discharge based on a stage-fall-discharge rating curve (Camenen et al., 2017)
which requires the estimation of the river’s slope. The application to the Saigon river as in
Camenen et al. 2021 shows that its hydrological dynamics are ruled by a complex
combination of factors.