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)