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ARR2016: Uncertain about uncertainty?

UNSW short course in statistics and probability to support ARR2016

The release of Australian Rainfall and Runoff 2016 has focused interest on a range of sophisticated approaches for flood hydrology based on different statistical methods. This course provides an introduction and refresher of aspects of probability and statistical theory used throughout ARR2016. Attending this course will give you with the skills to best understand the theory behind the new ARR2016 methods and datasets available.

Course instructors

Dr Fiona Johnson and Dr Lucy Marshall, both academics at UNSW Sydney based in the Water Research Centre, in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Fiona Johnson has over 15 years’ experience in working as a consultant, for government and in academia, with particular expertise in flooding, extreme events, and climate change assessments of water resources systems. Fiona previously worked on the IFD Revision Project of ARR2016. Lucy Marshall has over 15 years’ experience in academia, with research interests in uncertainty analysis, hydrologic model optimization, and catchment modelling.

Location and Time

1pm to 5pm, Wednesday August 23rd, 2017
UNSW CBD Campus
1 O’Connell St, Sydney NSW 2000
Cost: $250

To register please go to https://webpay.fin.unsw.edu.au/OneStopWeb/ENGIN_STATPROBWSHOP_2017

For further information contact Fiona Johnson [email protected] or (+61) 02 9385 9769.

ARR Workshops Now With Stand-Alone Pricing

Stand-Alone Pricing

We had previously announced that the workshops could only be booked as part of a conference package.  Now, however, that ARR team have announced stand-alone pricing of: $195 for each workshop.

Australian Rainfall and Runoff Climate Change Guidelines Launch

Speaker: Bryson Bates
Wednesday 26 November 2014, 4-5.30pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff will be launching its Interim Climate Change Guidelines at the Engineers Australia National Convention 2014. These guidelines were lead by Dr Bryson Bates from CSIRO. This draft discussion paper draws on the most recent climate science, particularly the release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on the Physical Science Basis in September 2013 (IPCC, 2013) as well as the new climate change projections for Australia (CSIRO and BoM, 2014), and outlines an approach to address the risks from climate change in projects and decisions that involve estimation of design flood characteristics. For consistency with the revised IFD design estimates for Australia, the Interim Guideline is intended to be applied to current-day rainfall intensities with a probability of one exceedance per year or annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs) from 50% to 1%.

Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 18 – Interaction of Coastal Processes and Severe Weather Events

Speaker: Seth Westra, Michael Leonard
Thursday 27 November 2014, 3.30-5 pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 18 focused on the Interaction of Coastal Processes and Severe Weather Events. This session  will include an overview of the methodology and a demonstration of the software developed by the University of Adelaide. This project will address the current short coming in estimating flood behaviour in the estuarine zone for current and future climate conditions.

To register please go to the Convention Website. Follow the normal registration process for the Convention. The system asks you to choose what you want to attend to calculate the fee to be charged. While the Convention has a number of workshops running the registration page is only showing them as ‘Wednesday Workshop’ and ‘Thursday Workshop.’ So depending upon the day you want to attend, you can register for one or both. Registration costs $195 per workshop.

ARR November 2014 Update

ARR is running two workshops at the Practical Responses to Climate Change Conference as part of the Engineers Australia Convention 2014.

Australian Rainfall and Runoff Climate Change Guidelines Launch

Speaker: Bryson Bates
Wednesday 26 November 2014, 4-5.30pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff will be launching its Interim Climate Change Guidelines at the Engineers Australia National Convention 2014. These guidelines were lead by Dr Bryson Bates from CSIRO. This draft discussion paper draws on the most recent climate science, particularly the release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on the Physical Science Basis in September 2013 (IPCC, 2013) as well as the new climate change projections for Australia (CSIRO and BoM, 2014), and outlines an approach to address the risks from climate change in projects and decisions that involve estimation of design flood characteristics. For consistency with the revised IFD design estimates for Australia, the Interim Guideline is intended to be applied to current-day rainfall intensities with a probability of one exceedance per year or annual exceedance probabilities (AEPs) from 50% to 1%.

Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 18 – Interaction of Coastal Processes and Severe Weather Events

Speaker: Seth Westra, Michael Leonard
Thursday 27 November 2014, 3.30-5 pm
Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Project 18 focused on the Interaction of Coastal Processes and Severe Weather Events. This session will include an overview of the methodology and a demonstration of the software developed by the University of Adelaide. This project will address the current short coming in estimating flood behaviour in the estuarine zone for current and future climate conditions.

To register please go to the Convention Website

RESCHEDULED: What’s happening in flooding in Australia

We’ve had to reschedule the full day event “What’s happening in flooding in Australia” to 27th November 2013.  Full details are still available in our original post and registration is via EA’s website.

Full Day Event: What’s happening in flooding in Australia

UPDATE: this has been rescheduled to 27th November 2013 at the same venue.

The Water Panel is pleased to announce, despite the late notice, that the next event on its calendar will be a full day event titled What’s happening in flooding in Australia.  This will be held at the UTS Aerial Function Centre on 23rd October and will cost $70, students are free but must pre-register.  The cost will include full catering for the day.

Update 2013-10-02: the event registration and payment gateway is now up an running.

Abstract

There is a lot going on in the flooding space in Australia at the moment. This includes the National Flood Risk Information Project (NFRIP), updating of Australian Rainfall and Runoff and the National Flood Manual. A number of projects underway are being funded by Geoscience Australia. This seminar will include an update on the upcoming milestones and deliverables of these projects. NFRIP which will undertake three core activities:

  • Work towards making flood study mapping information freely available from a central location through an online flood information portal.
  • Analyse Geoscience Australia’s historic archive of satellite imagery to derive water observations to help understand where flooding may have occurred in the past.
  • Improve the quality of future flood information by completing the revision of the Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR).

Presenters

  • Geoscience Australia Representative (TBC)
  • James Ball, Editor ARR, UTS
  • Janice Green, Project Manager ARR Project 1 –IFD revision, BoM
  • Duncan McLuckie, Editor “Managing the Floodplain”, NSW OEH

Details

Time: 10am to 4pm

Catering: included (if you have special needs please contact us)

Cost: $70 to cover catering and venue hire. Full time students free subject to registration prior to the event (email: [email protected])  Registration can be made at: https://events.engineersaustralia.org.au/ei/getdemo.ei?id=1881&s=_70S0ZGDRN

Venue: UTS Aerial Function Centre

Enquiries: Mark Babister ([email protected]) or Peter Brady ([email protected])

Printable Flyer: a PDF printable flyer is available for download.

ARR Update Sept 2012

Australian Rainfall and Runoff Workshop

The ARR revision team is running a full day workshop on Monday 19th November in Sydney.  The workshop will run from 10am – 4.15pm at UTS, Sydney. A preliminary schedule is attached however this is subject to change depending on whether outcomes of other projects are available at the time. The worksop will discuss the framework for delivery as well as project updates. Registration is open to those attending or not attending the Hydrology and Water Resources Conference. For those attending the Hydrology and Water Resources Conference 19-22nd November – Please note that registration for this event is separate to registering for the conference. The cost of registration is $150 (inc. GST). Places are limited so Register NOW!

Update: there is also a PDF flyer.

St Mary’s WRP Site Visit and Hawkesbury Nepean Modelling Presentation

The WSRG and Sydney Water Panel are running a half day site visit to the WRP in St Marys followed by presentations of the Hawkesbury Nepean Modelling conducted by Sydney Water Corporation, SKM and BMT WBM. The site visit will start from various locations and details in regards for pick-up locations are in the attached flyer. Numbers are strictly limited and the cost for the full day is $70.00. The afternoon presentation on the modelling can also be attended without registering for the site visit. Please refer to the flyer and website for details.

ARR Update for August 2012

Project Updates

Project 4 (Continuous Rainfall Sequences at a point)

The Stage 2 report on Continuous simulation of rainfall sequences has been released for industry comment. Continuous simulation of rainfall sequences are becoming increasingly important in design flood estimation as they represent, arguably, the most rigorous technique available to represent the joint behaviour of flood-producing extreme rainfall events, the preceding antecedent rainfall conditions, and the influence of non-stationary catchment conditions. This report describes the outcomes from the second stage of ARR research project 4. The objectives of this stage are to:

  1. finalise the development of the regionalised state-based method of fragments approach as well as the development of a regionalised daily rainfall generation model; and
  2. assess the performance of the method of fragments model using the same statistics and locations that were used in Frost et al [2004].

Arising from this project, methods were developed to allow for the generation of sequences of point-rainfall at the resolution of the pluviograph data (in this study taken to be in increments of 6-minutes) at any location in Australia. The testing conducted in this phase of work focused on statistics relevant for using continuous simulation in flood frequency estimation. Specifically, the method was tested in the context of the capacity to reproduce both extreme rainfall and the antecedent rainfall leading up to the annual maxima event, with the suite of methods generally performing well against these metrics.

Download a PDF of the report.

Project 10 and 15 (People Safety and Two dimensional Modelling (Flow around buildings))

Flow around buildings and People Safety presentation will be held at the 19th Queensland Water Symposium on 27-28 Sep in Brisbane.

Report Review Process

The Revision team is committed to producing a quality project for industry. As part of the revision process has been developed where reports are reviewed by the Technical Committee as well as Australian and International reviewers. The following reports are undergoing the detailed review process prior to release to the industry for comment and are expected to be released soon.

General Updates Call for Reviewers

Those interested in reviewing projects should email [email protected] briefly describing which projects they are interested in reviewing and what qualifications/experience they have in those practice areas.

HWRS 2012

Registration is now open for the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium. HWRS 2012 is Australia’s largest event devoted to hydrology, water engineering and related areas in water resources management. The Symposium has a long history as Australia’s pre-eminent conference in hydrological research and provides a forum to discuss emergent and innovative approaches for practicing engineers and scientists. HWRS 2012 takes place from 19 – 22 November 2012 at Dockside, Sydney NSW,
HWRS 2012 will bring together a large audience of academics, government officials and industry practitioners. Symposium highlights will include presentations from various researchers working on the 21 Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Projects, and keynote speeches from some of the world’s leading experts in hydrology and water resources. Dr Rob Vertessy, of the Bureau of Meterology has been confirmed to give the Munro Oration.

Register Now.

LinkedIn

Australian Rainfall and Runoff has joined LinkedIn. Join the group for discussions and updates on the revision of Australian Rainfall and Runoff.

ARR Update July 2012

Project Updates

Project  5 (Regional Flood Methods)

In Australia, there are many streams where there is little/no recorded streamflow data. In these ungauged and poorly gauged catchments, there is insufficient information/data to obtain design flood estimates which are needed to size hydraulic structures, plan and design other water infrastructure and undertake various environmental and ecological studies. Regional flood frequency analysis (RFFA) is the most commonly adopted technique to derive design flood estimates on the ungauged catchments. A RFFA method attempts to transfer flood characteristics information from a group of gauged catchments to an ungauged catchment of interest. The RFFA methods recommended in the Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) in 1987 need updating to reflect the advancements in RFFA methods and new additional streamflow data. find out more here

Project  10 and 15 (People Safety and Flow around buildings)

The final seminar on Flow around buildings and People Safety will be held at the 19th Queensland Water Symposium on 27-28 Sep in Brisbane. A large number of the profession have attended seminars held in Hobart, Perth, Melbourne, Newcastle, Darwin, and Sydney earlier this year.

Report Review Process

The Revision team is committed to producing a quality project for industry. As part of the revision process has been developed where reports are reviewed by the Technical Committee as well as Australian and International reviewers. The following reports are undergoing the detailed review process prior to release to the industry for comment and are expected to be released soon.

Project 4 Continuous rainfall sequences at a Point

Stage 2 report

Project 11 – Blockage of Hydraulic Structures

Stage 2 Report

General Updates

Call for Reviewers

Those interested in reviewing projects should email [email protected] briefly describing which projects they are interested in reviewing and what qualifications/experience they have in those practice areas.

HWRS 2012

Registration is now open for the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium. HWRS 2012 is Australia’s largest event devoted to hydrology, water engineering and related areas in water resources management. The Symposium has a long history as Australia’s pre-eminent conference in hydrological research and provides a forum to discuss emergent and innovative approaches for practicing engineers and scientists. HWRS 2012 takes place from 19 – 22 November 2012 at Dockside, Sydney NSW.

HWRS 2012 will bring together a large audience of academics, government officials and industry practitioners. Symposium highlights will include presentations from various researchers working on the 21 Australian Rainfall and Runoff Revision Projects, and keynote speeches from some of the world’s leading experts in hydrology and water resources. Dr Rob Vertessy, of the Bureau of Meterology has been confirmed to give the Munro Oration. Register Here for HWRS 2012!

LinkedIn

Australian Rainfall and Runoff has joined LinkedIn. Join the group for discussions and updates on the revision of Australian Rainfall and Runoff.

ARR Update – June 2012

Project Updates

A number of ARR projects will be presenting papers on project outcomes at the upcoming Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium (Sydney 19-22nd Nov). For more information visit www.hwrs2012.org.au

Project  10 and 15 (People Safety and Flow around buildings)

The final seminar on Flow around buildings and People Safety will be held at the 19th Queensland Water Symposium on 27-28 Sep in Brisbane. A large number of the profession have attended seminars held in Hobart, Perth, Melbourne, Newcastle, Darwin, and Sydney earlier this year.

Project 18  (Interaction of Coastal and Riverine flooding)

Flooding in the lower reaches of many coastal catchments can result from runoff generated by an extreme precipitation event occurring over the catchment, and/or elevated tail water levels attributable to a combination of high astronomical tide and storm surge. In many cases these flood-producing processes are the result of common meteorological conditions, with elevated storm surges being more likely to occur on days with extreme inland precipitation than on other days. This issue, referred to as joint dependence, can result in higher flood levels compared to the case where these processes are independent. The stage 2 report for Project 18 (Interaction of Coastal and Riverine Flooding) has been released for industry comment and is now available on the ARR webpage. http://www.arr.org.au/Website_links/ARR_Project18_Stage2_Report_Final.pdf

This report presents the outcomes of a pilot study into the application of statistical joint probability methods on extreme rainfall and storm surge in the coastal zone, with a view to providing guidance on the degree of interaction between these two physical process, as well as describing how this information should be applied for the estimation of flood risk along the Australian coastline. As part of this study, three separate areas of work were conducted: (1) the compilation of a large dataset of historical storm tide records at a number of locations along the Australian coastline, which when combined with the existing records of daily and sub-daily rainfall, can form the basis of an empirical study on the joint dependence between these variables; (2) a review of the statistical extreme value modelling literature with the objective of developing a model that can identify the strength of dependence between these variables; and (3) the identification of a methodology by which information on dependence between extreme rainfall and storm surge can be translated to a flood variable (such as a flood level or flow rate) at any location along the Australian coastline.

Report Review Process

The Revision team is committed to producing a quality project for industry. As part of the revision process has been developed where reports are reviewed by the Technical Committee as well as Australian and International reviewers. The following reports are undergoing the detailed review process prior to release to the industry for comment and are expected to be released soon.

  • Project 4 – Continuous rainfall sequences at a Point -Stage 2 report – Expected to be released June/July
  • Project 5 – Regional Flood Methods Stage 2 Report – Expected to be released June/July
  • Project 11 – Blockage of Hydraulic Structures – Stage 2 Report

General Updates

Climate Change

Engineers Australia with the Assistance of BoM and CSIRO have developed their climate change research plan which outlines research necessary to define the impact of climate change on design rainfall, losses, temporal patterns for incorporation into the next edition of ARR and beyond.

Call for Reviewers

Those interested in reviewing projects should email [email protected] briefly describing which projects they are interested in reviewing and what qualifications/experience they have in those practice areas.

LinkedIn

Australian Rainfall and Runoff has joined LinkedIn. Join the group for discussions and updates on the revision of Australian Rainfall and Runoff.

ARR Editor in the SMH

James Ball managed to get himself (and ARR) into the Herald. Its actually a short simple overview of the ARR process and outcomes.

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