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Given the current very uncertain situation with the spread of the COVID-19 crisis, the scientific committee of the 2nd European Fully Coupled Atmospheric-Hydrological Modeling and WRF-Hydro® Users Workshop has taken the decision to postpone the workshop to a future date. Nevertheless, the forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Hydrological Processes affiliated to the workshop, titled Coupled atmosphere-hydrological processes: novel system developments and cross-compartment evaluations, still goes on. Related information will circulate soon. Meanwhile, for more details, please contact cesmma (at) unical (dot) it |
News: Special Issue of Hydrological Processes
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The workshop is affiliated to a forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Hydrological Processes, titled Coupled atmosphere-hydrological processes: novel system developments and cross-compartment evaluations. |
Overview & Call for Abstracts
The 2nd European Fully Coupled Atmospheric-Hydrological Modeling and WRF-Hydro® Users Workshop will take place at the “University Club” Hall at the University of Calabria, Rende (Cosenza, Italy), .
The challenge of improving hydrometeorological forecasts and the need for accurate projections of hydrological impacts due to climate change has fostered the development of novel, fully two-way coupled atmospheric-hydrologic modeling systems by various research groups around the world.
The primary objective of the Workshop is to create an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and experiences with coupled atmospheric-hydrological modelers. As such, we invite abstracts focusing on the complex interactions between surface water, groundwater and regional climate as well as those presenting work on the development of fully-coupled hydrometeorological prediction systems for flood and water resources prediction. Presentations on novel coupled modeling systems that bridge spatial scales through dynamic regridding or upscaling/downscaling methodologies are also welcome, together with comparative studies between one-way and fully- coupled modeling systems, combined dynamical-statistical approaches, data assimilation in coupled models, field studies with measurements supporting multi-variable validation of coupled modeling systems.
The latter part of the workshop will be dedicated to the Community WRF- Hydro® modeling system that was released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in 2013, by means of 2.5 days hands-on tutorial. There are 20 spots available for this hands-on tutorial.
WRF-Hydro® Tutorial Description:
This 2.5 day workshop will provide graduate students, early career scientists, and professionals with formal
instruction on the structure and application of the WRF-Hydro system in a coupled instance. It will offer hands-on
experience in setting up and running the system for several different research and prediction applications.
Topics covered during the workshop may include:
- Conceptualization and structure of the WRF-Hydro system
- Description of physics components and options within WRF-Hydro
- Model input data preparation
- Hands-on model configuration and execution of an example test case
- Hands-on experimental model simulations and comparisons with a prepared example test case
- Overview of model calibration
- Open discussion on class participant interests and applications
Requirements:
Participants of the hands-on tutorial are required to bring their own laptop computer with:
- SSH and X-server capability
- Google Chrome web browser
- (Optional) ArcGIS 10.7 with Spatial Analyst extension activated and 64GB background geoprocessing - this will be for creating the hydrologic routing input files
More information on the WRF-Hydro® system can be found at: https://ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro
Coming from the North, get out of the train at the station of Paola and take local train to Cosenza. Get out of
the train to Cosenza at Castiglione Cosentino railway station (the only train stop, 7 km before Cosenza). From
the railway station, take a bus for University
The best exit from free highway A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria is Cosenza Nord Rende (7 km north of Cosenza). At the
exit of the freeway, University is on the left (1 km) 
