ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. E. Anagnostou
Event details
| Date | 25.06.2019 |
| Hour | 13:00 › 14:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. E. Anagnostou |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
13:00 – 14:00 – Prof. Emmanouil Anagnostou
Full Professor, Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, University of Connecticut
Taming storms: from complex terrain and coastal floods to power outages
Recent storms across the globe have threaten the safety of citizens and have adversely affected the economy and our critical infrastructure. From the 2013 Colorado flash flood to the supper-storm Sandy that battered the entire Northeast shoreline, the main threats to society from such storms includes life threatening flash floods, as well as coastal flooding and wind damages that lead to extensive disruptions to transportation, water and waste water and power utilities. Climate projections on global warming indicate increased sea levels and more frequent severe storms, suggesting that these threats to society will only increase in the coming decades.
His talk will review three on-going research topics in the area of storm hazards: (1) prediction of flash flood-inducing precipitation in complex terrain, (2) monitoring of coastal storms and flood inundation and (3) prediction of storm-caused power outages. The first part of the talk will show two new techniques we have developed for (i) improving satellite precipitation estimation in complex terrain capitalizing on high-resolution numerical weather prediction and (ii) quantification of uncertainty at global scale through machine learning based data blending.
In the second part of the talk, he will discuss an underwater acoustic sensor for measuring coastal winds and rainfall and a newly developed technique for deriving flood inundation areas from SAR data. We will verify underwater acoustic estimates of high wind and heavy rain events based on several coastal storms and compare our near-real-time SAR flood inundation maps to manually derived flood maps from hurricane events (e.g. Harvey).
In the last part, he will discuss a storm outage forecasting system that is currently running operationally for five electric utility service territories in New England area.
Full Professor, Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, University of Connecticut
Taming storms: from complex terrain and coastal floods to power outages
Recent storms across the globe have threaten the safety of citizens and have adversely affected the economy and our critical infrastructure. From the 2013 Colorado flash flood to the supper-storm Sandy that battered the entire Northeast shoreline, the main threats to society from such storms includes life threatening flash floods, as well as coastal flooding and wind damages that lead to extensive disruptions to transportation, water and waste water and power utilities. Climate projections on global warming indicate increased sea levels and more frequent severe storms, suggesting that these threats to society will only increase in the coming decades.
His talk will review three on-going research topics in the area of storm hazards: (1) prediction of flash flood-inducing precipitation in complex terrain, (2) monitoring of coastal storms and flood inundation and (3) prediction of storm-caused power outages. The first part of the talk will show two new techniques we have developed for (i) improving satellite precipitation estimation in complex terrain capitalizing on high-resolution numerical weather prediction and (ii) quantification of uncertainty at global scale through machine learning based data blending.
In the second part of the talk, he will discuss an underwater acoustic sensor for measuring coastal winds and rainfall and a newly developed technique for deriving flood inundation areas from SAR data. We will verify underwater acoustic estimates of high wind and heavy rain events based on several coastal storms and compare our near-real-time SAR flood inundation maps to manually derived flood maps from hurricane events (e.g. Harvey).
In the last part, he will discuss a storm outage forecasting system that is currently running operationally for five electric utility service territories in New England area.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Cristina Perez