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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Prof. E. Anagnostou
DTSTART:20190625T130000
DTEND:20190625T140000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. E. Anagnostou\n13:00 – 14:00 – Prof. Emmanouil Anagn
 ostou\nFull Professor\, Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation\, 
 University of Connecticut\n\nTaming storms: from complex terrain and coast
 al floods to power outages     \n\nRecent storms across the globe have thr
 eaten the safety of citizens and have adversely affected the economy and o
 ur critical infrastructure. From the 2013 Colorado flash flood to the supp
 er-storm Sandy that battered the entire Northeast shoreline\, the main thr
 eats to society from such storms includes life threatening flash floods\, 
 as well as coastal flooding and wind damages that lead to extensive disrup
 tions to transportation\, water and waste water and power utilities.  Cli
 mate projections on global warming indicate increased sea levels and more 
 frequent severe storms\, suggesting that these threats to society will onl
 y increase in the coming decades.\n \nHis talk will review three on-going
  research topics in the area of storm hazards: (1) prediction of flash flo
 od-inducing precipitation in complex terrain\, (2) monitoring of coastal s
 torms and flood inundation and (3) prediction of storm-caused power outage
 s. The first part of the talk will show two new techniques we have develop
 ed for (i) improving satellite precipitation estimation in complex terrain
  capitalizing on high-resolution numerical weather prediction and (ii) qua
 ntification of uncertainty at global scale through machine learning based 
 data blending.\n \nIn the second part of the talk\, he will discuss an un
 derwater acoustic sensor for measuring coastal winds and rainfall and a ne
 wly 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).\n \nIn the last part\, he will discuss a storm outage for
 ecasting system that is currently running operationally for five electric 
 utility service territories in New England area.
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