EXPERT IN FLOOD PROTECTION

The Netherlands is extremely successful at an international level when it comes to flood protection. The country has a large number of specialists available in every conceivable area: from the design and construction of dikes, forecasting systems, and decision-supporting systems, through to crisis management, measurement systems and evacuation.

 

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DATA ASSIMILATION FOR OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

This event took place on November 1-3, 2010

Visitors DA Workshop 2010


This 2.5-day workshop at Deltares in Delft, the Netherlands, on Nov 1-3, 2010, brought together expert scientists, engineers, operational forecasters and water managers to share experience, ideas, techniques and tools in the broad area of data assimilation (DA) for operational hydrologic forecasting and water resources management.

The presentations from the workshop are now available for download. Please refer to the Programme and Summary (PDF, 1MB) for the topics per day:


This workshop was co-organized by Deltares and the NOAA National Weather Service Office of Hydrologic Development, and co-sponsored by the Hydrologic Ensemble Prediction Experiment (HEPEX, http://hydis8.eng.uci.edu/hepex/) and the innovation program Flood Control 2015 ( http://www.floodcontrol2015.com).

For any additional questions and comments, please contact the co-organizers, Albrecht Weerts of Deltares and Yuqiong Liu of the NWS Office of Hydrologic Development via email: daworkshop2010@deltares.nl

Mission Flood Control 2015

“A really substantial improvement in operational flood protection worldwide.”