报告题目：Hydrological research at TU Delft, from city to globe: Overview and opportunities for cooperation

报告人：Nick van de Giesen教授, Marie-claire ten Veldhuis教授, 荷兰代尔夫特理工大学水管理系

语言：英语

报告时间：2016年11月12日（星期六）9:00-12:00

地点：国家重点实验室学术报告厅（农水楼一楼）

Nick van de Giesen教授简介：

Nick van de Giesen holds the chair of Water Resources Management. His main interests are the modelling of complex water resources systems and the development of science-based decision support systems. Development of new observation techniques, both in situ and through satellites, as well as High Performance Computing, are the core themes of both research portfolio and teaching curriculum. Currently, he leads to set up a high-resolution global hydrological model (eWaterCycle). He received the 2014 Leermeesterprijs (“Best Professor TU Delft”) award and the 2015 Darcy Medal.

Marie-claire ten Veldhuis教授简介：

Marie-claire ten Veldhuis is assistant professor Urban Water Systems. She is an expert in urban hydrology and flood risk assessment. The interaction between rainfall variability, stormwater management infrastructure and urban flood response is a core theme in her research portfolio. She recently spent 3 months as a visiting researcher at Princeton University for collaboration on this theme. She has experience working both in academia and in industry and government. She coordinated EU-project RainGain on high resolution radar-rainfall and is currently involved in various national and European collaboration projects.

eWaterCycle

eWaterCycle is the first operational global model that runs forecasts up to ten days ahead (forecast.ewatercycle.org). The model calculates how much water is available in each part of the world at present and in the near future. Using the most advanced science-based models and high performance computing, we are able to make statements about the water availability at every 10x10 kilometer of the land surface. Eventually, we would be able to do the same for each hectare (100 m x 100 m). Unique is that in situ and satellite data are used to update and improve the forecast, not unlike the setting of a watch once every day. The model is fully open source. The presentation will show some of the underlying design principles and future steps.

Urban Hydrology research at TU Delft: a unique experimental field set-up in the Delft-Rotterdam region

In the context of the RAINGAIN project (www.raingain.eu) a polarimetric X-band radar has been installed in the city centre of Rotterdam for high resolution rainfall estimation. Additionally, data from local automatic weather stations, disdrometers and water vapour sensors are available for the area. Two pilot areas within the city have been equipped with water level sensors in the sewer system and an automatic rain gauge for detailed modelling of the sewer system. A complaint database is available for the entire city, that contains citizens’ reports of urban flooding. These datasets provide a unique opportunity for urban hydrological research and development of flood risk prediction models.

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