Hydrological modelling of the Meuse basin - Program

Below is a tentative program for the thematic workshop on the Hydrological modelling of the Meuse basin. It remains subject to changes.

Thursday 28 July 2016

Time   Speaker   Title
         
09:00   Benjamin Dewals (University de Liège, HECE) and Bernhard Becker (Deltares)   Welcome and opening
         
Session HM1   Hydrological modelling of the Meuse basin: extremes
09:10   Patrick Willems (KU Leuven)
 
  Session opening
09:20   Jan De Niel & Patrick Willems (KU Leuven)   Extreme value analysis for extrapolation of Meuse river high flows and validation based on exceptional historical events (past 500 years)
09:40   Tjitske J. Geertsema (Wageningen University)   Simultaneous occurrence of discharge peaks in a large river and its lowland tributaries
10:00   Mark Hegnauer, Frederiek Sperna Weiland (Deltares)   The GRADE rainfall generator for extreme events applied to the Meuse
         
10:20   Coffee break    
         
Session HM2   Hydrological models for the Meuse basin
10:50   Hubert Savenije (TU Delft)   Session opening
11:00   TBA   TBA
11:20   Guillaume Thirel, Vazken Andréassian and Charles Perrin (IRSTEA) - Winner of the 2016 Tison Award   Lessons learnt from a common testing experiment on hydrological modelling on changing catchments
11:40   Tanja de Boer-Euser (TU Delft), Laurène Bouaziz (Deltares)   The joint modelling exercise for the Ourthe catchment
         
12:30   Lunch break    
         
Session HM3   Model users and stakeholders in the Meuse basin
13:30   Bernhard Becker (Deltares)   Session opening
13:35   Christiane Pyka (RWTH Aachen University) and Cor Jacobs   The Rur-Meuse-Linkage project
13:55   Aleksandra Jaskula (Rijkswaterstaat)   Low flows and droughts
14:15   Niels van Steenbergen (nv De Scheepvaart)   Usage of hydrological models in the daily practice
         
14:40   Coffee break    
         
Session HM4   Hydraulic models
15:10   Guillaume Thirel (IRSTEA)   Session opening
15:20   Rolien van der Mark (Deltares)   Effects of drought in the Meuse flow basin on the navigation sector
15:40   Alain Dassargues (Université de Liège), Pascal Goderniaux, Philippe Orban, Samuel Wildemeersch, Serge Brouyère   Groundwater flow and transport modelling at regional scale: lessons learned from different applications in the Walloon Meuse basin
16:00   Fernando Pereira (Flanders Hydraulic Research)   Operation of locks in the Albertkanaal
16:20   Bernhard Becker (Deltares)
Benjamin Dewals (University de Liège)
Hubert Savenije (TU Delft)
Guillaume Thirel (IRSTEA)
Patrick Willems (KU Leuven)
  Workshop conclusions