agreement signed 30 August 2010. Programmes currently being specified.
Daniel Schertzer
The goal of this Chair is to become an international centre of excellence in the training of high-level engineers and researchers in the management of water from the perspective of both risk and resource, quantity and quality, to tackle the technical challenges of tomorrow’s city and increase its resilience in tackling intense rainfall phenomena. Experimentation will play a large role, with the Chair planning to exploit the innovative technological contributions of X-band dual-polarization hydrometeorological radar.
Big cities continue to be particularly vulnerable to intense rainfall phenomena. To increase their resilience, we need to have precipitation data at a very fine scale to obtain the most accurate hydrological models and forecasts. The Chair’s research will rely on the installation and subsequent contributions of a X-band hydrometeorological radar system with dual polarization, providing observations at high spatial resolutions. The goal of this research will be to achieve a better understanding and forecasting of rainfall phenomena, which can be used in the development of decision-making tools to improve the effectiveness of rainfall management in urban areas.
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