Conferences
1–2 February 2024, University of Sheffield, The Wave, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield S10 2AH, UK
Advances in Flood Modelling and Forecasting Workshop
Dear Colleagues,
You are warmly invited to attend the “Advances in flood modelling and forecasting” event that will be held at the University of Sheffield on the 1st and 2nd of February 2024 (registration link).
Flood modelling and forecasting are core parts of flood risk management. The last decade has seen rapid advances in the development of efficient and flexible flood simulation frameworks for applications ranging from river-reach up to the global scales.
Flood modelling uses two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulators with as much complexity as needed, depending on the length of the spatial (kilometre to submeter) and temporal (day to microsecond) scales and on the level of detail in the outputs. Complex simulators can be useful to capture the details of the hydrodynamic processes involved in application at river-reach and neighbourhood scales. However, they are computationally expensive and are unlikely to outperform simplified simulators for large-scale fluvial/pluvial applications.
Flood forecasting is affected by multiple sources of uncertainty that need to be efficiently quantified and reduced. Uncertainties stemming from observational and forcing data, model parameters, the initial state of the system, and flood model structure can affect the overall accuracy. Still, it is challenging to have a general and efficient framework to identify the relevant uncertainty sources and how their joint effects impact the output flood-related probability distributions.
This one-and-a-half-day in-person event will present recent research developments and discuss research findings and questions, covering fundamental, computational and applied aspects of flood modelling and forecasting.
It provides a unique opportunity for research students, postdoctoral researchers, academics, consultants and modellers to hear about the latest in the field in an excellent networking forum.
The event will include presentations from a range of experts. Please see the event’s website for more information about the presentations.
We hope to see you there!
Georges Kesserwani
