RainGain workshop on scientific and technical issues

22nd October 2013 at École des Ponts ParisTech

Agenda

9h00
Welcome and Coffee, presentation of workshop program

9h30

 
Implementation and validation of radars in urban environments
 
-Implementation cases: next steps
Johan Van Assel: Leuven

Susana Ochoa:  London

Daniel Schertzer: Paris
Herman Russchenberg: Rotterdam
 
-Data validation

Auguste Gires: Implementation and initial comparison of three  disdromètres
Laurens Cas Decloedt: wind influence, clutter removal for Leuven case Jacqueline Sugier: clutter removal at MetOffice and attenuation

Tim Darlington:  Wind drift
Daniel Schertzer: rainfall heterogeneities, speckle effect and big data?
 
10h30
Coffee Break

10h50

 
Radar-rain gauge merging and downscaling, global VS event-based rainfall data retrieval, rainfall nowcasting
 

- Patrick Willems: Introduction

- Auguste Gires: Downscaling as a first steps towards revisiting merging between rainfall data at various scales
- Laurens Cas Decloedt & Patrick Willems: Outline proposal for a document on rainfall measurement in urban areas

- George Fitton et al.: Gone with the Wind 2

- Daniel Schertzer: Gone with the Wind 3
- Abdellah Ichiba: Intercomparison of two radar products
 

12h30

LUNCH

13h30
Visit of historical archives of École des Ponts with original works of Navier and Saint-Venant

14h30

 
Recent development in modelling

 
- Auguste Gires: Implementation and validation of the Multi-hydro model on the Loup Catchment

- Guenda Bruni: Sobek modelling results for the Rotterdam Centrum pilot, for one of the Cabauw events
- Julien Richard: Mulit-Hydro studies in Manchester and Rotterdam

- Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis: Joint paper for WRaH
 
Benchmark data?
 

- Susana Ochoa: Standard formats for data exchange amongst partners
-Tim Darlington: Data format

- Susana Ochoa and Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis: documenting algorithms to be shared

- Guenda Bruni: Two rainfall events retrieved from the Cabauw research radar
 
15h30
Coffee break

15h45

- Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia: A business model for RainGain


- Province of Zuid Holland: Involvement of and take-up project results by local authorities and stakeholders

- Julien Richard: The importance of visualisation tools for stakeholders involvement

- Rosa Vicari Platform for education and communication towards external parties

17h00

Regina Edoo and Alwin Wink: Steering Committee – Agreement on progress and financial report; main conclusions of workshops

18h00
Closure