École des Ponts ParisTech TRAINING PERIOD IN

École des Ponts ParisTech
TRAINING PERIOD IN RESEARCH LABORATORIES ABROAD
Stages scientifiques à l’étranger
APRIL 18, 2011 - JULY 08, 2011 / 18 avril 2011 au 8 juillet 2011
INTERNSHIP PROPOSITION / PROPOSITION DE STAGE
HOST UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OR SCHOOL / ORGANISME D’ACCUEIL
NAME OF INSTITUTION / Nom de l’organisme City / Ville : London
Imperial College London
ADDRESS / Adresse : Imperial College Road, SW7 Country/ Pays : UK
2AZ, London
IS THE INTERNSHIP PART OF AN EXCHANGE PROGRAMME? WHICH ONE? / le stage
est-il proposé dans le cadre d’un programme d’échange, lequel ? : Yes, Erasmus Exchange
Programme If applicable, name of exchange programme coordinator/nom du coordinateur du
programme : Valérie Joly
IS ACCOMMODATION PROVIDED ? / le logement est-il prévu? NO/Non
IF NOT PROVIDED / non prévu :
Can you help our students find a place ? / pouvez-vous aider les étudiants dans la recherche
d’un logement ? YES/Oui
Contact name/ nom: Student Accommodation Centre (Imperial College London)
email : [email protected]
phone / tél : 020 7594 9444 Other information/autre information:
Visit this website:http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/accommodation
INTERNSHIP PROPOSITION Nº1/PROPOSITION DE STAGE N°1
ADDRESS OF INTERNSHIP WHEN
DIFFERENT FROM THE HOST
INSTITUTION / adresse du lieu de stage
si différente de l’organisme d’accueil :
INTERNSHIP SUPERVISOR / Maître de
stage : Cedo Maksimovic
JOB TITLE/ Fonction : Professorial
Research Fellow, Head of Urban Water
Research Group
City / Ville:
Mail : [email protected]
Phone : (44) 020 7594 6013
Fax : 944)20 7594 6124
SIGNATORY OF INTERNSHIP
AGREEMENT/ signataire de la
convention de stage :
JOB TITLE / Fonction :
Mail : Will it be Christian Onof or HoD
Phone :
Fax :
TUTOR at École des Ponts / Tuteur École
des Ponts: Daniel Schertzer
Mail : [email protected]
Phone : 01.64.15.36.33
Fax :
École des Ponts ParisTech - Service Formation Alternée et Entreprises
Tel : + 33 (1) 64 15 39 95
Fax + 33 (1) 64 15 39 96
RESEARCH FIELD / Domaine de recherche : Hydraulics and hydrology (urban water systems).
USUAL LANGUAGE IN LAB / Langue de travail dans le laboratoire : English.
SUBJECT TITLE / Intitulé du sujet : Rainfall analysis and forecasting for application in urban
pluvial flood modelling and forecasting.
DESCRIPTION (5 to 15 lines) / Description (5 à 15 lignes) : Accurate and detailed (small
temporal and spatial resolution) rainfall forecast constitutes the main input for urban pluvial flood
forecasting (i.e. flooding due to intense rain events taking place is urban areas). Although it might
sound simple, getting an accurate and fine-scale rainfall forecast is not an easy task due to the
complexity of the hydrological phenomena and due to the difficulty of getting reliable and detailed
rainfall data that enables developing, calibrating and testing rainfall forecasting models. In order to
improve the modelling of precipitation (rainfall) fields and to finally improve the rainfall forecast, it
is necessary to carry out a detailed analysis of the available rainfall data from different sources (i.e.
raingauges and radars), taking into account the spatial and temporal resolution of the data, the
relationship between the data obtained from the different sources, amongst other aspects. The
research activities planned for the exchange student from the ENPC would be focused on
mathematically and statistically analysing available rainfall data from different sources, on testing
different interpolation techniques that could provide a continuous spatial distribution of the rainfall
data obtained from rain gauges (which provide punctual information) and on testing a recently
developed software package which enables improving the real time quantitative estimates of the
precipitation fields by combining rain gauge, radar and satellite information using an innovative
Bayesian multivariate formulation (Todini, 2005). This work mainly requires a strong mathematical
background. The student would be provided with literature about hydrological processes and PhD
students from Imperial College would work together with him/her, thus providing the required
support for the student to carry out the planned research activities.
École des Ponts ParisTech - Service Formation Alternée et Entreprises
Tel : + 33 (1) 64 15 39 95
Fax + 33 (1) 64 15 39 96