​ISFRAM
2015
: 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FLOOD RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT 2015
Workshop
FLOOD MODELLING AND RADAR APPLICATION
Flood occurrence is the result of the interactions between the weather system, the watershed, and channel hydraulic. Atmospheric variability, coupled with climate change, poses great difficulty to accurate and timely prediction of extreme rainfall events. Meanwhile, rapid and rampant development has resulted in continuous alteration of the catchment land use and surface flow path, hence increased surface runoff which repeatedly exceeds past observations. In addition, flood plain encroachment, sedimentation and other issues related to the retention and conveyance of flood water further aggravates the flooding problem.
The workshop comprises 4 lectures on radar rainfall prediction, use of geostationary satellite images for quantitative rainfall estimates (QRE), hydrological and hydraulic modeling. The focus is on the application of computational tools in flood prediction and simulation. The concept, approach, and strategy in numerical computation will be presented.
WORKSHOP PRESENTER
Dr Lee Wei Koon is a civil engineering graduate from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He obtained his master degree by research in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and his doctorate from Oxford University, UK. Dr Lee's research inter-est includes coastal hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydrology, and fluid-related problem such as mixing. His expertise is in numerical computation and modeling. He will speak on depth-averaged shallow water flow, including the governing equation, discretization, source-term treatment, adaptive grid generation, convergence test, initial and boundary conditions, and techniques of numerical solution.
Dr Jazuri Abdullah completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at Colorado State University, USA and received his M.Sc. degree in Water Resources Engineering and Management from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and B.Eng From Universiti Teknologi MARA. His research interests are hydrological modeling, statistical approach in climate analyses and hydrodynamics and sediment transport modeling system. He will speak on existing hydrological models in determining the rainfall-runoff relationship. Among the topics to be discussed include the selection of model complexity (e.g. 1D, integrated 1D-2D, 2D and 3D model), and the criteria for model selection. Some of the significant findings from pre-vious studies using different hydrological model(s) will be highlighted.
Dr Wardah Tahir is a graduate from Cornell University, New York ,USA. She obtained her MSc in Water Resources from Birmingham University, UK and PhD in Civil Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia. She has completed various researches in flood frequency analysis, design flood estimation, river modeling and flood simulation, and use of geostationary meteorological satellite, weather radar and numerical weather prediction model products for hydro-meteorological flood forecasting. She has developed two flood related software named DeFlood GS (patented) and GMS-Rain. She will lecture on the use of geostationary meteorological satellite images for rainfall estimation and application of radar rainfall for flood forecasting in Malaysia.
