As the 1st Edition of the book “Flood Forecasting, A Global Perspective” has just been released, Thomas Adams (UCAR) and Tom Pagano (BoM) [see their bio below], editors, recall how the idea of the book was born and what they have learned when editing contributions describing national and regional flood forecasting systems from 11 different countries, as well as continental scale systems. This reference book points out challenges and ways forward to improve flood forecasting around the world. Maria-Helena Ramos…
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Contributed by James Bennett, Nick Loveday and Rob Taggart Guns n’ Roses were in town, and so was HEPEX. For many of us AMOS2022 was the first in-person conference we’d attended since the advent of the pandemic. This alone made it an amazing event – it was wonderful to see old and new faces and feed off the energy of others’ work. Like Slash returning to complete the original lineup, it felt like sinking into your favourite chair. AMOS is…
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Thanks to all participants! The presentations made available by the authors can be downloaded from the links inside the programme below. The summary of the workshop is published here. WORKSHOP PROGRAM Keynote speakers Day 1: Tue, Feb 6th Day 2: Wed, Feb 7th Day 3: Thu, Feb 8th Fri, Feb 9th: field trip involving a tour of the Bureau’s National Forecasting centre and Melbourne Water’s Sugarloaf reservoir List of posters Support funding Detailed program: HEPEX_programme_final.xlsx Book of Abstracts: HEPEX_workshop_proceedings.pdf KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof…
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Contributed by Maria-Helena Ramos, QJ Wang, Andy Wood and Fredrik Wetterhall (Hepex co-chairs) The Hepex Portal published 46 posts in 2016. Here below the year in review, with its highlights. A hot topic for 2016? Certainly, the winner is: Global, continental and countrywide forecasting. It was a recurrent topic in the posts published during the year. We have learned that: The current state of large-scale (global and continental) operational flood forecasting is largely due to the integration of meteorological and…
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Contributed by Guillaume Thirel and Maria-Helena Ramos, members of the Irstea Guest Columnist Team You may have already heard of one of the GR models developed by the Catchment Hydrology research group at Irstea in the Centre of Antony (France). Or you may have already run one of these models in your study catchments or as an exercise with your students. These models started to be developed in the 80’s, with the support of data from the Orgeval experimental basin, a 104-km²…
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