Welcome to Rain measurement and analysis in an urban hydrological context
Description:

General course objectives: To enable the participant to conduct and analyze rain measurements and use them for urban drainage applications. To understand the basic meteorological processes responsible for different types of rain. To understand the error types and correction methods needed before rain data can be used for urban drainage design and analysis.

Learning objectives:

· Be able to work with raw rain data and convert them into intensity time series.

· To be able to work with fundamental weather radar data and adjust these against rain gauge observations.

· Understand fundamental weather radar nowcasting techniques.

· Be able to compare different types of gauge data.

Content:

- Fundament meteorology related to rain.

- Set up, operation and analysis of rain gauges.

- Weather radar fundamentals.

- Understanding and handling uncertainty in rain data

- Weather radar now casting – using extrapolation methods

Tentative schedule:

Monday 16/12 2013: Introduction, Fundamental meteorology.

Tuesday 17/12 2013: Rain gauges and their analysis.

Wednesday 18/12 2013: Weather radar fundamentals

Thursday 19/12 2013: Uncertainty analysis and nowcasting bias adjustment”, spatial variability, extremes

Friday 20/12 2013: Radar Data Applications considering Data Quality, combination of two types of weather radars.

Partition fee: Free for Danish universities

700 Euro, for non-Danish universities. Includes course materials. Does not include travel, accommodation or food

Organizer:

Michael R. Rasmussen, Department of civil engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark, mr@civil.aau.dk

Søren L. Thorndahl, Department of civil engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark, mr@civil.aau.dk

Lecturers:

Michael R. Rasmussen, Associate professor, Aalborg University

Søren L Thorndahl, Associate professor, Aalborg University

Jesper Ellerbæk Nielsen, Assistant professor, Aalborg University

Aksel Walløe Hansen, Associate Professor, university of Copenhagen

Søren Overgaard, CEO, Radarlab, Denmark

Thomas Einfalt. CEO, hydro & meteo GmbH & Co. KG

Patrick Willems, Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven


ECTS: 2,50
Time: 16/12 – 20/12 2013
Place:
Aalborg University
Department of Civil Engineering
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57
Zip code: DK-9000
City: Aalborg
Number of seats:
Deadline: December 6, 2013