Program

Departure of Participants

Precipitation measurement, analysis, modelling
- Radar and satellite rainfall (radar-​gauge-satellite comparisons)
- Spatio-​temporal statistics of rainfall (local, regional, global)
- Stochastic modelling of rainfall, machine learning methods in rainfall modelling

Precipitation forecasting
- Applications of numerical weather prediction (NWP) in urban areas
- Accuracy statistics, verification criteria and their use in prediction
- Warning systems

Climate change effects on urban drainage systems
- Drainage system vulnerability, adaptation policies for future climate
- Uncertainties in rainfall and urban drainage system response
- Applications of climate change scenarios

Weather Extremes
- Extreme rainfall timeseries analysis and statistical methods
- Feedbacks of urban areas on rainfall
- Urban droughts and heatwaves, urban heat island

Oral presentations are 15 min long (10-​12 min presentation and 3-5 min discussion). You will not be able to use your own computer, all presentations should be brought on a memory stick and transferred to the designated presentation computer prior to the presentation. Should you have any special requests for your presentation, please make these known to the organizers.

Posters are to be prepared in standard A0 format vertical (portrait not landscape). There are no other special formatting/design requirements for posters. PDF files of the posters will be posted on the workshop webpage. Pins to hang up the poster will be provided. Please use the board with your number in the Program. Posters will be displayed for the entire duration of the Workshop in the meeting room, so there will be many opportunities to discuss your work with other participants. Poster authors will give 1-minute popup talks (1 slide).

The Best Young Scientist Poster (BYSP) and Best Young Scientist Talk (BYST) Awards are given to the best young scientist for their poster, or from 2023 also talk. To be eligible for the competition, the scientist has to be 35 years or younger at the time of the Workshop, and be the first author on the poster or give the talk. Please indicate your eligibility when you submit your abstract. BYSP+BYST is traditionally sponsored by private companies in environmental monitoring with a small financial donation. The BYSP+BYST are selected by the workshop participants in a vote.

PAST WINNERS

2018: Winner of the BYSP Award was Sebastian Moraga from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) for the poster Simulating rainfall at hourly and kilometer scales for future climate scenarios using a weather generator. Sebastian was presented the BYSP prize by the managing director Ms Andrea Dahl of the sponsoring company EIGENBRODT.

2015: Winner of the BYSP Award was Ricardo Reinoso Rondinel from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) for the poster Polarimetric X-​Band weather radar: high-​resolution rainfall estimation. Ricardo was presented the BYSP prize by the managing director Ms Andrea Dahl of the sponsoring company EIGENBRODT.

2012: Winner of the BYSP Award was Li-​Pen Wang from Imperial College London (United Kingdom) for the poster Analysis of kriged rainfields using multifractals. Li-​Pen was presented the BYSP prize by the managing director Ms Andrea Dahl of the sponsoring company EIGENBRODT.

2009: Winner of the BYSP Award was Sander Vanderberghe from Ghent University (Belgium) for the poster Evaluation of stochastic rainfall models based on a comparative copula-​based bivariate frequency analysis of observed and simulated rainfall. Sander was presented the BYSP prize by the managing director Ms Andrea Dahl of the sponsoring company EIGENBRODT.

2006: Winner of the BYSP Award was Miloslav Müller from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the ASCR (Prague, Czech Republic) for the poster Extremeness of meteorological quantities as an indicator of extreme precipitation events. Miloslav was awarded the prize by the Working Group on Urban Rainfall (GUR) of the Joint IWA/IAHR Committee on Urban Drainage.