Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the EGS-AGU-EUG Assembly to be
held in Wien, Austria, 02 - 07 April 2006 and particularly to the
following session focused on flood risk topics:
NH9.02 Flood risk assessments in urban areas
Convener: Aronica, G.
Co-Convener: Apel, H.; Freni, G.
Event Information
Flood risk assessments are a useful and necessary procedure both for
flood management planning and in the insurance industry. They are
carried out at several scales ranging from complete watersheds down to
the local site specific level. However, the currently applied methods
suffer several drawbacks and uncertainties on all scales. This session
aims at the improvement of risk assessments at the local scale with a
specific focus on urban areas.
On this scale a meaningful risk assessment must take the exact spatial
distribution of buildings and infrastructure into consideration as well
as the detailed hydraulic features of the waterway causing the flooding.
This challenges the methods of both sides of the risk assessment, the
estimation of the inundated areas and the assessment of the damages
associated with the inundation. The detailed simulation of possible
large floods in urban areas poses numerical and computational problems
to the hydrodynamic simulation models, because of a) the complex
topography of the simulated area, b) the usually high number of
hydraulic structures in inner-city rivers and c) the complicated effect
of the sewerage system in the flood propagation.
On the other side, the estimation of damages caused by the flooding is
even more complicated, because of the various building types all
differently susceptible to flood damage and the numerous damage causes
encountered during a flood. Besides the flood depth, the flow velocity
may have a significant impact on damage degree, especially in cases of
flash floods, as well as secondary factors like damages caused by
leaking oil tanks or contamination of drinking water. In order to review
the state of the art and the advantages/disadvantages of detailed urban
risk assessments in comparison with aggregated methods on larger scales,
contributions from the fields of urban hydraulics, advanced numerical
methods, sewerage simulation, site and building specific flood damage
assessment and urban flood risk assessment are invited.
If you are interested and you are working on these topics we'll be glad
to receive your abstracts.
The various deadlines are:
1. Deadline for Support Application: 9 December 2005
2. Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: 15 January 2006
3. Letter of Acceptance to Key-Authors: 29 January 2006
4. Deadline for Pre-Registration: 10 March 2005
We are looking forward to seeing you in Wien next year.
Sincerely yours
Giuseppe Aronica
Heiko Apel
Gabriele Freni
More information at the address:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/index.html
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Dr. Giuseppe Aronica
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile
Universita' di Messina
Salita Sperone 31
98166 S. Agata - Messina
ITALY
Tel. ++39-090-3977164
Fax. ++39-090-395022
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