Florian Pappenberger

OpenIFS@home: Using citizen science to improve our understanding of weather and hydrological forecasts

June 19, 2019 Florian Pappenberger Comments 0 Comment

The history of HEPEX is deeply connected to ensemble forecasting and uncertainty analysis. Indeed, none of us could even imagine a forecast without uncertainties (apart from McFool). One direction of research is to investigate the value in improving forecasts using a coupled system and truly understand the interactions between the atmosphere and the land surface whilst analysing the associated uncertainties. However, any analysis is limited by the resources one has available. To run a large number of ensembles, one would…

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Acqua Alta: Flooding and Flood Forecasting in Venice, Italy

November 14, 2018 Florian Pappenberger Comments 0 Comment

Contributed by Luigi Cavaleri, Institute of Marine Science (CNR), Venice, Italy. Venice is sinking at a rate of 1-2 mm/y. Combined with the present rate of sea level rise, ~3mm/y, this leads to ever more critical conditions for the possibility of flooding. With half of the city now no more than 80 cm above the present mean sea level and a tidal spring excursion of about 1 metre, any small surge will imply flooding in large parts of the city. A…

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History of Hydrology Wiki – Interview with Keith Beven

November 30, 2017 Florian Pappenberger Comments 1 comment

Have you seen the wiki “History of Hydrology“? It was created by Professor Keith Beven, Professor Emeritus in the Lancaster Environment Centre, in 2016, and we have recently interviewed him to learn more about it: What was your motivation behind creating the “History of Hydrology Wiki”? I have always been interested in the history of the hydrology and hydraulics, which is both long and interesting. A lot of the early history was summarized in the book on the History of Hydrology,…

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The role of Early Career Scientists in community research

June 28, 2017 Florian Pappenberger Comments 2 comments

Contributed by Florian Pappenberger and Maria-Helena Ramos (both considerably beyond the early career stages, they admit) (this post can also be seen in the Young Hydrologic Society Portal) Science and forecasting practice are the foundations of the HEPEX community. These are certainly the routine of many of us during our office hours and while spending time in front of your computers. But this community is also based on individuals, and this is often what really makes it fun to go to…

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A platform: Community of Users on Secure, Safe and Resilient Societies

May 10, 2017 Florian Pappenberger Comments 0 Comment

The “Community of Users on Secure, Safe and Resilient Societies” (CoU) is an efficient platform of exchanges among different actors of different branches of security and crisis management. The CoU initiative came as a response to the complexity of the security and crisis management policy framework and the wide variety of research capacity-building and training initiatives that led to a lack of awareness about policies and/or research project outputs by users, namely policy-makers, scientists, industry/SMEs and practitioners (e.g. civil protection…

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