SciComm – HEPEX

The HEPEX community contributing to EGU22 and IAHS22 – What not to miss!!!

May 9, 2022 Ilias Pechlivanidis Comments 0 Comment

It is finally happening! Soon the community will meet in Vienna and Montpellier and discuss the scientific and operational progress in hydrological forecasting. If you are planning to go and want to meet HEPEX and EC-HEPEX people, here are some tips on the sessions that might interest you. If unfortunately you cannot be there in person, do not worry since we are now in the era of hybrid events. You can simply register and attend the sessions online. Just browse…

23 (+1) unsolved questions in hydrology

May 2, 2018 Rebecca Emerton Comments 1 comment

Contributed by Bettina Schaefli Have you heard about the “23 unsolved problems” initiative of IAHS, in reference to the 23 unsolved problems of Hilbert? After the launch of this initiative in November 2017, the web-based discussion culminated in a round of brainstorming at EGU 2018 and in a voting process at the Vienna Catchment Science Symposium. Personally, I did not contribute any question at the discussion stage. I simply could not think of a question that relates to observed phenomena,…

HEPEX Highlights from EGU 2018

April 18, 2018 Rebecca Emerton Comments 0 Comment

Last week, 15,075 scientists from 106 countries attended the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna. The week was jam-packed with more than 17,000 talks, posters and PICO presentations in 666 different sessions. The HEPEX community was represented across 5 oral/poster sessions and 1 PICO session, plus many other related sessions and events! Attendees could attend talks covering a huge range of research, from very local-scale all the way up to global scale studies, from flash flood forecasting to…