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UrbanRain18: 11th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas

5-7 December 2018, Sporthotel, Pontresina

>> DAY 1: workshop programme <<

WEDNESDAY, 5 December 2018

8:30 - 8:45 Opening of UrbanRain18 (Molnar, Peleg, Burlando)

Monitoring - weather radar I (Chair: Einfalt)

8:45 - 9:00 Winterrath An overview of the new radar-based precipitation climatology of the Deutscher

Wetterdienst – data, methods, products

9:00 - 9:15 Gabella Twelve-year of operational real-time precipitation estimation in the Alps: better

performance of the radar-only and radar-gauge products in recent years9:15 - 9:30 Jensen A new entry-level, plug-and-play, single polarity, X-band weather radar for urban

drainage

9:30 - 9:45 Thorndahl Areal rainfall from radar in urban drainage analysis and design – some reflections on

implementation in Denmark

9:45 - 10:00 Gires The effects of temporal variability of DSD features on pseudo-radar algorithms

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

Rainfall nowcasting and forecasting (Chair: Foresti)

10:30 - 10:45 Bliznak Improving knowledge on precipitation distribution during historical extremes using

high-resolution NWP model

10:45 - 11:00 Mayer Deterministic and probabilistic short range forecasts for precipitation

11:00 - 11:15 Pulkkinen pySTEPS: an open-source community for radar-based ensemble precipitation

nowcasting

11:15 - 11:30 Shehu Radar data quality impact on rainfall nowcasting for urban drainage application

11:30 - 11:45 Sideris NowPrecip: Localized precipitation nowcasting in the complex terrain of Switzerland

11:45 - 12:00 Treis Improving the short-term forecast of precipitation events using vehicle sensor data –

research project mobileVIEW

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 16:00 Excursion (Morteratsch Glacier)

16:30 - 17:00 Morin Keynote Lecture: Space-time precipitation patterns derived from weather radar data

and their atmospheric controls


Urban hydrology I (Chair: Onof)

17:30 - 17:45 Beckers Urban flood hazard modelling in Florence, using a novel method for rainfall input

17:45 - 18:00 Cristiano Evaluating critical rainfall and catchment scale influence on hydrological response in

urban areas

18:00 - 18:15 Mejia-Estrada Application of a meteorological-hydrological modelling cascade at high spatial and

temporal resolution for flash floods simulation in urban areas

18:15 - 18:30 Qiu Evaluation of nature-based solutions for storm water management with a fully

distributed model in semi-urban catchment

18:30 - 18:45 Sikorska Does radar-based rainfall data improve runoff simulations? – A case study in a small

urban Swiss catchment

18:45 - 19:00 Zander Introducing H2020 European climate prediction system for urban pluvial floods

19:30 Dinner at Sporthotel




THURSDAY, 6 December 2018

Monitoring - rain gauges, microwave links and optical sensors (Chair: Bares)

8:30 - 8:45 Fiser Rain classification to refine Z - R and Ek - R relations based on Czech disdrometer data8:45 - 9:00 Andersson Rainfall monitoring by microwave link networks in Sweden

9:00 - 9:15 de Vos Opportunistic sensing for urban rainfall monitoring: what spatial and temporal

resolutions can be resolved by personal weather stations and commercial microwave

links?

9:15 - 9:30 Disch Impact of different sources of precipitation data on urban rainfall-runoff predictions: A

comparison of rain gauges, commercial microwave links and radar

9:30 - 9:45 Fencl Improving rainfall quantitative estimates by combining microwave links of different

lengths

9:45 - 10:00 Lau Off Grid camera and rain-gauge sensors for operational performance of dams


Rainfall modelling (Chair: Gires)

10:30 - 10:45 Eisele Capabilities of stochastic rainfall models as data providers for urban hydrology: Part 1

– Generation and statistical analysis of precipitation time series

10:45 - 11:00 Krämer Capabilities of stochastic rainfall models as data providers for urban hydrology: Part 2

– Application and validation of synthetic rainfall time series for urban drainage

modelling

11:00 - 11:15 Müller-Thomy H Improving the autocorrelation in disaggregated time series for urban hydrological

applications

11:15 - 11:30 Müller M Analysis of short-term rainfall time structure by half-time concentration indexes11:30 - 11:45 Scovell Application of the wavelet transform for modelling non-stationarity and local

anisotropy in precipitation fields

11:45 - 12:00 Varga Temporal rainfall downscaling with random cascade models for application in urban

drainage modelling


14:00 - 15:00 Fencl, Bares Topical Workshop 1: Urban rainfall from commercial microwave link networks: recent

advancements and future challenges

16:30 - 17:00 ten Veldhuis Keynote Lecture: Rainfall sensing, the next generation

Flood nowcasting and forecasting (Chair: Germann)

17:00 - 17:15 Nerini A flash flood forecasting system based on high-resolution ensemble precipitation

nowcasting

17:15 - 17:30 Ochoa-Rodriguez Analysis of local rainfall patterns over Birmingham (UK) using 10+ years of gauge-

adjusted radar rainfall data: a building block towards a data-driven urban flood

forecasting system

17:30 - 17:45 Pedersen Ensemble forecasts of urban runoff from a deterministic Numerical Weather Prediction

model by use of spatial neighborhood sampling

17:45 - 18:00 Strehz StucK: Improving the warning system for urban floods in Hamburg

18:00 - 19:00 Poster session (BYSP voting) and Apero (drinks in meeting room)

19:30 Dinner at Sporthotel




FRIDAY, 7 December 2018

Monitoring - weather radar II (Chair: Morin)

8:30 - 8:45 Wolfensberger Potential use of specific differential phase shift and attenuation for the retrieval of rain

rates in strong convection over Switzerland

8:45 - 9:00 Panziera A 12-year radar-based climatology of daily and sub-daily extreme precipitation over

the Swiss Alps

9:00 - 9:15 Benoit Local-scale radar-rain gauge data fusion

9:15 - 9:30 Sorup Investigation of the usefulness of weather generator data as input to long-term

simulations in urban hydrology

9:30 - 9:45 Thomassen Analysis of statistical properties of thirteen years of radar data

9:45 - 10:00 Schertzer Scientific deadlocks to small weather radar deployment


Climate change (Chair: Burlando)

10:30 - 10:45 Peleg Extreme rainfall intensification at warmer temperatures as observed from weather

radar data

10:45 - 11:00 Scheibel Using decadal climate predictions to estimate trends of extreme events in the next

future

11:00 - 11:15 Van Uytven How important is an ensemble of statistical downscaling methods in urban climate

change impact studies?

11:15 - 11:30 Mosimann Can we predict surface water flood damage by precipitation alone?

11:30 - 11:45 Nair Flood risk management in the coastal megacities of India under a changing climate

11:45 - 12:00 Nguyen A decision support tool for assessing the climate change impacts on urban water

infrastructure design


14:00 - 15:00 Foresti Topical Workshop 2: Discover pySTEPS - the ensemble precipitation nowcasting

library (demo session)

16:30 - 17:00 Willems Keynote Lecture: Climate change impact analysis on urban rainfall: new

developments


Rainfall extremes and implications (Chair: Nguyen)

17:30 - 17:45 Rosbjerg Initial design of urban drainage systems for extreme rainfalls using intensity-duration-

area (IDA) curves

17:45 - 18:00 Kavka Effect of rainfall intensity and energy on the protective technical measures under heavy

storm

18:00 - 18:15 Laburda The effects of rain drop impact on soil surface microtopography

18:15 - 18:30 Langousis Using approximations from multifractal theory to estimate IDF curves at ungauged

locations

18:30 - 18:45 Einfalt Some requirements for extreme rainfall event analyses and communication

18:45 - 19:15 Closing of UrbanRain18

19:30 WORKSHOP Dinner at Sporthotel



>> POSTERS <<

On display in Workshop room from 5-7 December 2018

No 1 Balistrocchi Rainfall stochastic modelling through copulas in a climate change perspective

No 2 Barnes A Comparison of neural network models for the prediction of rainfall in the UK

No 3 Boutigny A stochastic rainfall generator for Brest area

No 4 Brigandi A stochastic point rainfall model of single storm for urban drainage systems design based

on 2-copula and dimensionless hyetograph

No 5 Farris First analyses of rainfall patterns retrieved by a newly installed X-band radar over the

Metropolitan area of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy)

No 6 Lengfeld Characteristic spatial extent of rain events in Germany from a radar-based precipitation

climatology

No 7 Manoli The impact of rainfall on urban warming worldwide

No 8 Moraga Simulating rainfall at hourly and kilometer scales for future climate scenarios using a

weather generator

No 9 Netzel Effects of detrending precipitation series on frequency analysis of extreme events

No 10 Pastorek The suitability of precipitation estimates from short CMLs for urban hydrological

predictions No 11 Renard A comparison of two weather type classifications for evidence of climate trends on intense

rainfall in the context of local climate change

No 12 ten Veldhuis Detection of missed rainfall by automated quality-control filters in citizen rain gauge data

No 13 Wang Reproducing extreme statistics of hourly and sub-hourly rainfall with Bartlett-Lewis

models: Some tips and new developments

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