Print Email Facebook Twitter High resolution radar rainfall for urban pluvial flood managementmanagement: Lessons learnt from 10 pilots in North-West Europe within the RainGain project Title High resolution radar rainfall for urban pluvial flood managementmanagement: Lessons learnt from 10 pilots in North-West Europe within the RainGain project Author Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. Ochoa-Rodriguez, S. Bruni, G. Gires, A. Van Assel, J. Ichaba, A. Kroll, S. Wang, L.P. Tchiguirinskaia, I. Giangola Murzyn, A. Richard, J. Schertzer, D. Willems, P. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2014-09-07 Abstract Precipitation and catchment information needs to be available at high resolution to reliably predict hydrological response and potential flooding in urban catchments. While recent advances have been made in weather radar technology and availability of DTM for urban flood modelling, the question is whether these are sufficient to provide reliable predictions for urban pluvial flood control. The RainGain project (EU-Interreg IVB NWE) brings together radar technologists and hydrologists to explore a variety of rainfall sensors, rainfall data processing techniques and hydrodynamic models for the purpose of fine-scale representation of urban hydrodynamic response. High resolution rainfall and hydrodynamic modelling techniques are implemented at 10 different pilot locations under real-life conditions. In this paper, the pilot locations, configurations of rainfall sensors (including X-Band and C-Band radars, rain gauges and disdrometers) and modelling approaches adopted within the RainGain project are introduced. Initial results are presented of hydrodynamic modelling using high resolution precipitation inputs from dual-polarisation X-band radar, followed by a discussion of differences in hydrodynamic response behaviour between the pilots. Subject radar rainfallurban hydrologyurban flood modelling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7194c54c-a74f-4f90-ae30-215c6a06dae5 Source 13th IWA/IAHR International Conference on Urban Drainage, Sarawak, Malaysia, 7-12 September 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s) Files PDF 308536.pdf 1.07 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7194c54c-a74f-4f90-ae30-215c6a06dae5/datastream/OBJ/view