Quebec 2015

International Working Group on Data and Models

Group meeting 21 September 2015 at UDM 2015 (Mont Saine-Anne, Canada)

Election of new chair and secretary The groups thanks the outgoing chair Simon Tait. David McCarthy (Monash University) is elected as ne chair, Manfred Kleidorfer (Innsbruck University) as new secretary
Country reports (topics)
- Australia (reported by Monash Univ.):
  - Pathogens in water systems, uncertainties & sensitivity analysis
  - spatially distributed rainfall & radar rainfall
  - integrated modelling / strategic planning (CRC for Water Sensitive Cities)
  - ongoing cooperation with INSA Lyon, EAWAG, DTU, Innsbruck and others
- Austria (reported by Innsbruck Univ):
  - Coupling of climate change, urban development and infrastructure models
  - Deterioration modelling of aging infrastructure
  - Modelling of the transition of the moving city Kiruna in Sweden
  - Smoothed particle hydrodynamics for modelling waste water treatment systems
- Denmark (reported by DTU)
  - Investigation complexity and scale of flood models to improve computational time
  - Real time control with long time prediction and long time monitoring of water quality
  - Rainfall monitoring, climate impacts
  - Integrated modelling with Lorenzo Benedetti
- Denmark (reported by Aalborg)
  - Weather radar, uncertainties, ensemble simulations
  - Chemical processes in ecosystems and foul sewers
- Great Britain (reported by Sheffield)
  - QUICS (Quantifying Uncertainties in Integrated Catchment Studies): PhD Training Network for 4 years: different sources of uncertainties, cooperation with many groups
  - CENTAUR: Cost Effective Neural Technique for Alleviation of Urban Flood Risk
  - Urban flooding
  - Pollutant transport
- Great Britain (reported by Exeter)
  - Cooperation with Welsh water: ANN to detect blockages in real time
  - Best student paper award at CCWI
  - Simulation of impact of flooding on traffic
- Germany
  - Münster: multi objective model calibration, water balance model, microscale of LIDs
  - Munich: cooperation with India: flood warning system
- France (reported by INSA Lyon)
  - ESPRIT: project on priority substances 2007 – 2010: database will be made publicly available in 2016
  - SMILE project: new innovative on-line monitoring station including TSS, toxicity, BOD, and other chemicals
  - PostDoc position available
  - SMILE project: new innovative on-line monitoring station including TSS, toxicity, BOD, and other chemicals
  - EVOHE: Software for data validation and uncertainty analysis: new version with new interface and new functionalities to be released in 2016
  - New start-up AEGIR on 3D CFD modelling of complex sewer structures including CSOs by A. Momplot (former PhD student)
  - Modelling of pharmaceutical residuals in wastewater
  - Rainfall runoff & pollutograph modelling
  - Development / extension of a green roof models
  - Fully renovated monitoring stations, new time series and datasets for the coming years, available for modelling
- Italy (reported by Palermo)
  - Rainfall propagation & radar
  - Micropollutants, improvements of measurements
- Japan
  - Micropollutants
  - Radar data for warning systems
- Netherlands (Delft)
  - Raingain project: High resolution radar data, testing impact of model response
  - Asset management: sedimentation, deterioration
  - Special issue in Hydrology and Earth Systems science
  - Community sensing
- Netherlands (UNESCO-IHE)
  - Extreme flooding in coastal areas
  - Agent based modelling
  - Dynamic health impact assessment
  - Pathogens in urban water systems
- Sweden (reported by Lulea)
  - Long-term monitoring of swales and green roofs
  - Building up modelling group
  - Project on city transition with Innsbruck
- United States (reported by Univ. Tennessee)
  - GIS modelling, change of land use
  - CFD modelling
  - Biofilters
Working group report
- Uncertainty workshop on Sunday together with QUICS (presentations can be downloaded at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8hoxX7wPZI9MG1JeVUtMXQxRGs&usp=sharing)
- One or more workshops of the groups are planned at Novatech 2016 (maybe also together with other working groups) WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ARE WELCOME
- Working group has a bit budget which could be used to support a Junior Scientists workshop
Next Urban Drainage Modelling Conference (2018)
- Proposals from Denmark (DTU), Italy (Palermo) and Austria (Innsbruck)
- After a short presentation of each group the attendees vote that the 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling (UDM) 2018 will be held in Palermo / Italy (proposed dates: 23.-26.9.2018)