Week 1

After getting to know our study area, the available data we had and starting to build a hydrological model, the whole team met in Nice at the Polytech Nice Sophia engineering school. So, for two weeks we were able to work face-to-face with the whole team. 

The objective of the first week of work was to build a hydrological model with HEC-HMS and complete the data analyses begun during the online phase. We studied the different climate change projections for our area and compared them with each other. We have produced intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves that describe the probability of a series of extreme precipitation events for current and climate change data. 

We now need to calibrate and validate the hydrological model. To do this, we need to determine certain input parameters such as the Muskingum coefficient. 

The distribution of work between the different team members is described in the table below.