Slovak – U.K. young scientists workshop
 
Extreme hydrologic phenomena – droughts and floods, methods their assessment and modelling.”

 

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Institute of Hydrology SAS

Slovak Committee for Hydrology

 

Programme

 

Saturday, June 18

UK participants arrive in Vienna (Austria), taken to hotel IBIS in Bratislava (Slovakia)

 

Sunday, June 19

Morning – sightseeing in Bratislava (UK participants)

13.00 – All participants leave from Bratislava to the workshop venue Smolenice castle by coach from the hotel IBIS site

13.00 – 18.00  Visit to the water scheme Gabcikovo, historical towns Nitra and Trnava

18.00 – 19.00  Buffet dinner in Smolenice

19.00 – 19.30  Introductory speeches  by a representative  SAS and BC

19.30 – 20.00  Key lecture by Dr. V. Novak “Hydrological conditions of Slovakia”

20.00 – 20.30  Key lecture by Dr. A. Gustard “ Co- operation in drought research in Europe”.

20.30 – 22.00  Networking

 

Monday, June 20

Flood prediction and forecasting

9.00 – 10.40

Chair: H.G. Fowler and R. Kubes

 

Uncertainty quantification in pooled flood frequency analysis

Thomas Rodding Kjeldsen

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK

 

Comparison of pooling schemes for flood frequency analysis in Slovakia

Ida Kriegerová

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Dept. of Land and Water Resources Management

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava,  Slovakia

 

A novel approach to flood frequency analysis when incorporating historical flood information: the application of a high threshold generalised Pareto distribution

Macdonald N.

The School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, UK 

 

Simulations of the floods at Slovak Danube river with historical inputs by model Nln – Danube

Veronika Mitková

Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy od Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

 

Influence of boundary conditions and structural uncertainty on flood inundation predictions

Florian Pappenberger1, Patrick Matgen2, Keith Beven1

1 Lancaster University, Environmental Science, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ,

2 Cellule de Recherche en Environnement et Biotechnologies, Luxembourg

 

10.40 – 11.10    Coffee break

 

11.10 – 12.30

Chair: N.Macdonald and V. Mitkova

 

Water outflow control from a reservoir by fuzzy regulator during the flood passage

Lubomír Jaroš

VUT v Brně, ÚVHK, Žižkova 17,   602 00  Brno, Czech Republic

 

Observed changes in extreme rainfall and implications for flood risk in the UK: climatic variability or the first signs of climate change?

Hayley J. Fowler and Chris G. Kilsby

Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

 

Flood Forecasting for the upper Hron River Basin

Richard Kubeš, Marcel Zvolenský

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Dept. of Land and Water Resources Management

Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava,  Slovak Republic

 

The areal depletion curves - a method for estimating the volume of water in snow

Zuzana Pecúšová

Institute of Hydrology SAS, Račianska 75, 831 02 Bratislava , Slovakia

 

12.30 – 14.30    Lunch

 

Properties in the soil unsaturated with water

14.30 – 15.30

Chair: A.M.Ireson and T. Orfanus

 

Regional processing of soil drought indicators: Conditional hydrolimits and water storage capacity

Tomáš Orfánus

Institute of Hydrology SAS, Račianska 75, 831 02 Bratislava,  Slovakia

 

Spatial variability and degree of spatial organisation of soil water content in the field  with heterogeneous soil cover

Tomáš Orfánus

Institute of Hydrology SAS, Racianska 75, 831 02 Bratislava, Slovakia

 

Modelling flow processes in the Chalk unsaturated zone

A.M. Ireson

Imperial College London, UK.

 

15.30 – 16.00    Coffee break

 

Sediment transport

16.00 – 16.40

Chair:  P. Baca and S.J. Dadson

Earthquake- and storm-driven increases in sediment delivery

from an active mountain belt

Simon J. Dadson et al.

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, CEH Wallingford, Maclean Building,

Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8BB, UK.

 

Factors controlling sediment dynamics during rainfall-runoff events in a small basin.

Peter Bača

Institute of Hydrology Slovak Academy of Sciences, Račianska 75, Bratislava,

831 02, Slovakia

 

 

Low flow prediction

16.40 – 17.40

Chair: Z. Pecusova and M. Fry

 

Implementation of low flow estimation methods in the UK

Matthew Fry

CEH Wallingford, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8BB, UK

 

The development of a regionalised model for the estimation of natural low flow statistics within ungauged catchments in Scotland

Tracey Goodwin

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK, 

 

Estimation of low and flood flow indices using regionalised model parameters

Juraj Parajka

Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

 

 

17.40 – 19.00  Networking

19.00 – 20.00  Dinner

20.00 – 22.00  Networking

 

Tuesday, 21 June

 

9.00 – 10.30

Presentation on research funding and discussion

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 Conclusion of the workshop
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 Participants leave by coach to Bratislava

    

Participants from UK will leave to Vienna or stay at a hotel in Bratislava

 

Workshop format

Each participant will be given 15 minutes for presentation and an additional 5 minutes for discussion. Discussion can be continued during the section “Networking”, when proposals for international cooperation in hydrology can be developed. Session chairpersons will be responsible for keeping presenters to the timetable!