1st Global Flood Crosscutting Project Workshop

Sep 22, 2023 | Online

Kick-off (plenary)

Time (UTC)Agenda ItemPresenter/moderator
08:30WelcomeGEWEX Flood CC team
08:40Introduction to the GEWEXPeter Van Oevelen
08:50Vision and Goals of the Flood Crosscutting Project and the workshop structureGEWEX Flood CC team

Breakout Session 1: Hydrologic Factors for Flood Generation

Science Question:
What physical and hydrological factors dominate flood generation mechanisms across scales? And how these might be different in the combined flood generation mechanisms across the coastal, urban, and rural settings?

Time (UTC)Agenda ItemPresenter/moderator
09:00Flood generation in a changing world and its uncertaintyThorsten Wagener (lead)
09:15Study on the Flood Forecasting for Medium and Small River Watersheds Based on Multi-source Information FusionKe Zhang
09:30Introducing the Flashiness-Intensity-Duration-Frequency (F-IDF) CurveJonathan Gourley
10:00Discussion and Create Summary SlidePresenters and Participants
10:45Break

Breakout Session 2: Spatiotemporal Variability of Flooding

Science Question:
What changes in atmospheric and landscape systems control spatiotemporal variability of flooding?

Time (UTC)Agenda ItemPresenter/moderator
09:00Compounding extreme rainfall and heatwaves: how important are large scale dynamics in generating extreme floods?Hayley Fowler (lead)
09:15The Spacetime Variability of Flood Frequency in a Warming ClimateDaniel Wright
09:30Flood risk prediction under climate change from global to local scalesHuan Wu
09:45Variability in the magnitude and timing of flooding with climate changeConrad Wasko
10:00Discussion and Create Summary SlidePresenters and Participants
10:45Break

Breakout Session 3: Interplay with Climate and Land Use

Science Question:
What is the likely interplay of climate and catchment physical changes (indicators of abrupt system shifts) on flood occurrence and predictability?  How do changes in climate systems and land systems (e.g., dam-induced land use changes, etc.) co-evolve and cascade from the atmosphere to the land surface and affect catchment susceptibility to flooding? How do the sensitivity and uncertainty of flood simulations increase under non-stationarity? landscape systems control spatiotemporal variability of flooding?

Time (UTC)Agenda ItemPresenter/moderator
09:00Achieving Urban Flood Resilience in an uncertain urbanising worldJessica Lamond (Lead)
09:30Assessment of climate impact on meso-scale catchment hydrology considering land use projectionsIoana Popescu
09:45Climate and reservoir management effects on floodsManuela Brunner
10:00Discussion and Create Summary SlidePresenters and Participants
10:45Break

Wrap Up (plenary)

Time (UTC)Agenda ItemPresenter/moderator
11:00Session 1 Report/DiscussionThorsten Wagener
11:15Session 2 Report/DiscussionHayley Fowler
11:30Session 3 Report/DiscussionJessica Lamond
11:45Next Steps and Future MeetingGEWEX Flood CC team
12:30Adjourn

Session Elements

Kick-off
The workshop will be initiated with a 10-minute period of welcome, orientation, technology checks, and instructions followed by a brief presentation about the GEWEX and Flood crosscutting project. The workshop includes 3 sessions with two-hour live sessions each run in parallel, hosted on Zoom.

Presentations
Each two-hour live session has four presenters. Each presenter has 10 minutes for presentation followed by 4 minutes of Q&A and 1-minute translation to the next presenter.

Discussion and Create Summary Slide
Each session includes 45 minutes of discussion, brainstorming, and exchanging ideas. Every 4 presenters will then summarize the discussion of their session in a Summery Slide.

Break
There will be 15 minutes break after the sessions.

Wrap-up
The 60-minute closing segment allows for each session to report to the entire workshop and provide a summary of what was learned in that session and a foreshadowing of the next steps in the workshop process.

Next Steps and Future Meeting
The Flood Crosscutting team will discuss the next steps and future plans of this initiative.

Adjourn