Rainfall monitoring, modelling and forecasting in urban environments. UrbanRain18: 11th International Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas. Conference Proceedings
Year: 2019
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Heavy rainfall impacts urban environments by generating inundation in cities, drainage system overflows, and urban infrastructure disruption.Urban planners are increasingly concerned with sustainable ways to deal with flood risk driven by intense rainfall.Damages caused by urban flooding are increasing worldwide also because of more frequent and intense storms due to climate change.To reduce the impacts of heavy rainfall in urban environments it is necessary to combine scientific and practical knowledge in rainfall monitoring, forecasting at high space-time resolutions, flood runoff modelling and risk assessment, real-time warning, and climate change effects on rainfall extremes.UrbanRain workshops are a regular series of international workshops on precipitation in urban areas which address these problems at the interface of science and practice.The workshops have taken place every three years since 1989 in the St. Moritz mountain region of Switzerland.They provide a focussed forum for exchanging new scientific ideas and advances in urban hydrological practice.Contributions at the workshops address both scientific and operational aspects of rainfall impact analysis and the workshops are attended by scientists, practitioners, students, and urban managers.This Proceeding collects the abstract or short papers of 52 papers presented at the UrbanRain18 workshop.The abstracts/short papers cover the four key themes of the workshop: (1) Precipitation measurement, monitoring, analysis, modelling; (2) Precipitation forecasting; (3) Climate change effects on urban drainage systems; and (4) Rainfall extremes.They are organized in the Proceedings in alphabetical order by the first author.The abstracts/short papers were not peerreviewed or language edited.The Proceedings are available through the ETH Zurich E-Collection electronic open-access document repository.Further information about the UrbanRain workshops can be found on www.urbanrain.ethz.ch.
Authors: Peleg, Nadav, Molnar, Peter
Language: English
Subfield: Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: České Vysoké Učení Technické v Praze, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Grantová Agentura České Republiky, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, Umweltbundesamt, Bundesinstitut für Bau- Stadt- und Raumforschung, European Regional Development Fund
OpenAlex ID: W2961691423