Urban pluvial flood forecasting - rainfall data processing - experimental site in Redbridge Prof. Čedo Maksimović, Dr. Christian Onof, Li-Pen Wang Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London Visitors from University of Iowa, 28/05/2010 @ ICL
Surface Flooding Forecast / Warning A more reliable flooding forecast could be implemented if a high-resolution rainfall prediction with longer lead time is carried out Rainfall Depth Observed Predicted Resolution Now Time Lead time Runoff Modelling Sewer Simulation Surface Flooding Forecast / Warning
Rainfall data processing Aim to carry out high-resolution rainfall forecasting with longer lead time Rainfall data processing
NOWCASTING An integrated notion Focus on statistically-based downscaling techniques Why deterministic? because the aim of this work is to “forecast.”
Possible improvements in Nowcasting, Calibration & Downscaling Information based upon NWP outputs Advection of rainfields Larger-scale weather variations Enhanced radar observations X-Band radar and ground raingauge data Super-resolution techniques to improve the spatial resolution Statistically-based space-time downscaling techniques Cascade-based spatial disaggregation method Temporal correlation between successive rainfields
Generalised Linear Models (GLMs)
Poisson cluster based methods
Cascade-based Methods: scale-invariance
Cascade-based methods: mapping to rainfall sequences
Cran Brook catchment in the London borough of Redbridge Experimental site
Redbridge catchment and Roding river
Radars surrounding the Redbridge area
Three real-time accessible tipping bucket raingauges over the Redbridge catchment (frequency: 1 – 5 min)
Real-time access to 30+ weather monitoring systems in each London Borough (frequency: 30 min)
One pressure sensor for Roding river (frequency: 5-10 min)
Two sensors for water depth measurement in sewers (frequency: 5/10 min)
One sensors for water depth measurement in open channels (frequency: 5-10 min)
Thank you for your attention Li-Pen Wang li-pen.wang08@imperial.ac.uk