Lyon 2019

Minutes Group Meeting of the International Working Group on Data and Models (IWGDM)

Novatech Lyon, Tuesday 2nd of July 2019

Management team: Manfred Kleidorfer (chair), João P Leitão (secreatary), Ico Broekhuizen (YWP)

Agnethe Pedersen, Manfred Schütze, David McCarthy, Ana Deletić, Dominik Leutnant, Günter Gruber, Morten Borup, Luca Vezzaro

1. News from working group
   • Workshop at Novatech on Benachmark of flood models – Joint publication planned
2. News from the JCUD
   • New members John Okedi (South Africa), Jon Hathaway (USA)
   • ICUD 2023 will be in South Africa
3. Organisation of UDM 2021 (USA). Conference chair: Elizabeth Fassman-Beck; dates are fixed to 11 – 14 July 2021
4. Planned activities
   • Working group wants to be present at ICUD 2020 (Australia) in special sessions and workshop
   • Ideas for workshops in ICUD 2020.
     • Low-cost sensors! There are a few on-going developments in this topic (also open hardware)
     • Workshop idea Luca Vezzaro: Analysis of influence of the modeler on the results, discussions how this can be done are ongoing
     • Luca Vezzaro: TSS modelling competition should be continued (Lyon data set is there) – option for ICUD 2020 or UDM 2021 5.
5. Discussion of open source data
   • It is more and more important to share and publish datasets; data can be published e.g. in Journal Earth System Science Data https://earth-system-science-data.net/ (also other journals exist) and hosted on platforms as ZENODO (https://zenodo.org/)
6. Activities of group members
   • New SWMM interface for R developed by Dominik Leutnant (leutnant@fhmuenster.de). Other SWMM interfaces were also mentioned: MatSWMM (https://github.com/networked-systems/MatSWMM), PySWMM (https://pyswmm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
   • Günter Gruber: An ad hoc pre conference workshop before SPN (http://www.spn9.dk/) on 26th August 2019 will focus on how the ongoing digitization impacts the assessment of combined sewer overflows – see http://spn9.dk/workshops.html and http://spn9.dk/onewebmedia/20190702_CSO%20workshop%20-%20flyer.pdf
   • Luca Vezzaaro / Agnethe Pedersen: Online models for CSO prediction are in operation in Denmark
   • Manfred Schütze: data set for hydrological modelling to benchmark RTC strategies is available and can also be used for other modelling purposes, contact: manfred.schuetze@ifak.eu
   • João P Leitão: Open data of flood experiments available: https://www.eawag.ch/en/department/sww/projects/floodx/
7. Next meeting:  During ICUD 2021, Melbourne