Articles and papers in scientific journals, conference proceedings etc.

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.

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”).

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”).

Check the developed application here!

PEARL presented in Aqualogy’s newsletter “Aqualogy Conocimiento”, June 2014 issue

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An article describing project PEARL was published in the June 2014 issue of “Aqualogy Conocimiento”, Aqualogy’s internal newsletter.

Aqualogy is a company developing integrated water solutions, from design, engineering and construction, to equipment, maintenance, training, and consultancy. In the context of this corporation, CETaqua represents the R&D&I collaboration network that designs, configures and executes projects in the water and environment sector.

PEARL presented at 1st Preparatory Meeting of the 22nd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum in Vienna, 27 – 28 January 2014

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The OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum is the main annual event in the OSCE’s second dimension. In 2014, under the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship, the 22nd Economic and Environmental Forum focused on “Responding to environmental challenges with a view to promoting cooperation and security in the OSCE area”.

The forum is organised as an exchange platform for a number of national and international institutions, NGOs, academia and the business community from the OSCE’s 57 OSCE participating States with the objective to reinforce the role of the OSCE in the promotion of good governance in disaster management. Natasa Manojlovic from TUHH introduced the aims and activities of PEARL in respect to holistic risk governance and stakeholder participation. During the panel forum, the potential of large scale international project such as PEARL to support the implementation of good governance in disaster risk management has been discussed.

  • Manojlovic, N., 2014: Learning and Action Alliances as a Vehicle for Innovation and Active Learning – How to Enhance Community Based (Flood) Risk Management? Proceed. of the 22nd OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, Vienna, 27-28 January 2014