11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics 2014

The PEARL approach on holistic flood risk assessment at HIC11 in New York

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PEARL project leader Zoran Vojinovic presents the PEARL approach addressing holistic flood risk assessment in coastal areas at 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2014). The PEARL approach draws upon the complexity theory and the use of complex adaptive system (CAS) models as tools to identify root causes of vulnerabilities and their multi-stressors and to analyze risk and the behavior of key actors.

  • Zoran Vojinovic, Yared Abebe, Arlex Sanchez, Neiler Medina, Igor Nikolic, Natasa Manojlovic, Christos Makropoulos, Mark Pelling, Michael Abbott, 2014: “Holistic Flood Risk Assessment in Coastal Areas - The PEARL Approach”, 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 17-21 August 2014, New York City, USA.
  • Presentation of the paper in Special Session S10-01: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data and Methods for Flood Resilience in Urban Areas, on 17/Aug/2014: 3:45pm-5:30pm, in Room 374.
11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics 2014

Hidromet: A Cloud-Based EWS Platform for Real Time Urban Flood Warning, at HIC11 in New York

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Hydrometeorological Innovative Solutions (HYDS) and AQUALOGY will be presenting at 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2014) an Early Warning System for real time urban flood warning based on radar nowcasting techniques. It runs in the cloud a hydraulic/hydrological model with radar, rain gauges and other sensors information, allows configuring warnings over different elements and actions to be triggered when the different warning levels are reached.

  • Álvaro Rodríguez, Xavier Llort, David Sancho, Rafael Sánchez-Diezma (HYDS), Ramón Bella, Vicente Gómez (AQUALOGY), 2014: “Hidromet: A Cloud-Based EWS Platform for Real Time Urban Flood Warning”, 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 17-21 August 2014, New York City, USA.
  • Presentation of the paper in Session R59: Real-time Control of Flood Events, on 18/Aug/2014: 3:45pm-5:30pm, in Room 201.

How does it relate to PEARL?

As an Early Warning System for real time urban flood warning based on radar nowcasting techniques, Hidromet contributes to work package 4 on Flood Forecasting and Early Warning Systems; particularly to Task 4.3 (“Advanced uncertainty tools and methods for early warning”) and Task 4.5 (“New methodologies, concepts and tools for effective dissemination of early warnings”).

11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics 2014

FloodAlert: A Simplified Radar-Based EWS for Urban Flood Warning, at HIC11 in New York

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Hydrometeorological Innovative Solutions (HYDS) will be attending the 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2014), August 2014. A simplified urban flood Early Warning System [EWS] based on the use of radar observations and radar nowcasting to issue local flood warnings will be presented.

  • Xavier Llort, Rafael Sánchez-Diezma, Álvaro Rodríguez, David Sancho (HYDS), Marc Berenguer, Daniel Sempere-Torres (CRAHI), 2014: “FloodAlert: A Simplified Radar-Based EWS for Urban Flood Warning”, 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 17-21 August 2014, New York City, USA.
  • Presentation of the paper in Special Session S1-01: Real-time Monitoring of Urban Water Systems, on 17/Aug/2014: 10:45am-12:30pm, in Room 201.

How does it relate to PEARL?

As a web-based platform and Flood Early Warning System, HYDS’ FloodAlert contributes to work package 4 on Flood Forecasting and Early Warning Systems; particularly to Task 4.3 (“Advanced uncertainty tools and methods for early warning”) and Task 4.5 (“New methodologies, concepts and tools for effective dissemination of early warnings”).

PEARL

2nd PEARL Project Committee meeting will be held on 2-4 July in Rethymno (Crete), Greece.

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RethymoThe 2nd Project Committee meeting will take place on 2-4 July in Rethymno (Crete), Greece.

Each Work Package and Case Study will share with the other partners in the Consortium progress made to date and will work in parallel groups to improve the implementation of its tasks. A specific session is dedicated to Young Researchers.

Participants will also have the possibility to visit the location of one of the Case Studies: the port, the marina and the old Venetian harbour of Rethymo.