Workshop on data science for high impact weather and flood prediction
Workshop on data science for high impact weather and flood prediction
20-22 Nov 2017, University of Reading Greenlands Campus, Henley-on-Thames
Organisers: Sarah Dance, Jessica Gardner, Sanita Vetra-Carvalho, Joanne Waller
Workshop Objectives
The workshop objectives are to enable discussion and exchange of expertise at the boundary between digital technology, data science and environmental hazard modelling, including
- Data assimilation and data science for flood forecasting and risk planning
- Data assimilation and data science for high impact weather forecasting
- Smart decision making using environmental data
Workshop Schedule
Please click on the links to the presentations.
Monday 20 November
| 1030 | Registration (Tea/Coffee) | |
| 1100-1240 | Session 1 (Chair: Sarah Dance) | |
| 1100 | Sarah Dance | Welcome and introduction |
| 1120 | Humphrey Lean | Modelling urban weather |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch | |
| 1300-1500 | Session 2 (Chair: Joanne Waller) | |
| 1300 | Simon Bell | Low cost weather observations |
| 1340 | Katharine O’Boyle | The Met Office WoW (Weather Observation Website) |
| 1420 | Luke Madaus | Assimilating weather data from smartphones |
| 1500 | Coffee | |
| 1530 | Speed networking | |
| 1615-1740 | Session 3 (Chair: Gert-Jan Steeneveld) | |
| 1615 | Amanda Anderson | Vehicle based weather observations |
| 1700 | Tao Cheng | Big data and natural hazards |
| 1800 | Drinks/Posters/Flash Flood! | |
| 1900 | Dinner |
Tues 21 November
| 9.00-10.20 | Session 4 (Chair: Humphrey Lean) | |
| 9.00 | Joanne Waller | Observation uncertainty and urban observations |
| 9.40 | Sytse Koopmans | Using data assimilation to model the urban climate of Amsterdam |
| 10.20-10.40
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Tea/Coffee Please sign up for breakout groups |
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| 1040-1200 | Session 5 (Chair: Onno Bokhove) | |
| 1040 | Gordon Blair | Data science and flooding |
| 1120 | Geoff Parkin | Community sourced flood data |
| 1200-1300 | GROUP PHOTO, followed by Lunch | |
| 1300-1500 | Session 6 (Chair: Elizabeth Cooper) | |
| 1300 | Avinoam Baruch | Crowdsourced flood data |
| 1340 | David Mason | Using SAR to delineate flood extents |
| 1420 | Sanita Vetra-Carvalho | Flood data assimilation and big data |
| 1500 | Breakout groups | |
| 1530 | Coffee | |
| 1600 | Breakout plenary | |
| 1640-1800 | Session 7(Chair: Jon Bevington) | |
| 1640 | Mike Gibson | Urban flood modelling |
| 1720 | Onno Bokhove | Drowning by numbers: how the Wetropolis flood demonstrator inspired flood excess-volume estimates |
| 1900 | Dinner |
Weds 22 November
| 9.00-10.20 | Session 8 (Chair: Sanita Vetra-Carvalho) | |
| 9.00 | Sophie Ricci | Data assimilation and flood forecasting |
| 9.40 | Renaud Hostache | Flood forecasting using the particle filter |
| 10.20-10.40
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Tea/Coffee Please sign up for breakout groups |
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| 1040-1200 | Session 9 (Chair:Renaud Hostache) | |
| 1040 | Elizabeth Cooper | Improving flood prediction using data assimilation |
| 1120 | Hans Lievens | Data Assimilation and hydrology |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch | |
| 1300-1420 | Session 10 (Chair: David Mason) | |
| 1300 | Jon Bevington | Flood Foresight System |
| 1340 | Lindsay Beevers | Water resilient cities |
| 1420 | Breakout groups | |
| 1450 | Breakout plenary and wrap up | |
| 1530 | Workshop Close (Tea/Coffee) | |
| 1600-1700 | DARE Advisory Board meeting |