Curriculum: HYRIS

Term: 2^nd year, 1^st Semester

Syllabus

CFU: 6

SSD: CEAR-01/B

Duration and Schedule: available here

Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday 10-13 AM

OBJECTIVES

The objective of the course is to introduce students to the main hydrological hazards (fluvial flood, flash flood, excess of rainfall and drought) and the consequent risks. The course aims at providingto the students an overview of the main approaches to assess the hydrological risk and of the main modelling techniques to quantify it.

DESCRIPTION

1. Introduction to hydrology and flood risk, 2. The main processes of the hydrological cycle, 3. Modelling approaches to compute the discharge in a river, 4. Definition of flood, 5. Statistical methods to describe the extreme events, 6. The Intense-Duration-Frequency curve, 7. The Flood Frequency Curve, 8. Anatomy of a Flood Risk Model, 9. Models for hazard estimation, 10. 1D and 2D hydraulic models, 11. Simplified geomorphological models, 12. The role of the hydraulic defenses, 13. Models for the vulnerability estimation, 14. Models for the exposure, 15. Generation of flood events, 16. Flood risk analysis, 17 Definition of drought, 18. Main modelling approach to assess the drought risk.

During the course there will be presentations on specific applications: the estimation of the defence failure effects, the downscaling of the exposure model, the computation of building damages due to flood, models for drought estimation over large areas, simple tools for the estimation of the extreme events distribution.

REQUIREMENTS

Basic knowledge of Hydrology and Probability and Statistics.

REFERENCES

Eslamian, Saeid. Handbook of Engineering Hydrology, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2014

YacovHaimes,Risk Modelling, Assessment and Management, Wiley, 2016

Zakai Sen, D. Chase, D. Savic, W.Grayman, S. Beckwith, and E. Koelle (2003). Apply Drought Modelling, Prediction and Mitigation.Elsevier, 2015

ASSESSMENT

Assignments will be handedover and graded during the course.The final examination will consist of a presentation of a study case.Students will be admitted to the final exam based on a satisfactory performance in the assignment.

Instructor 1: Mario Martina: official webpage and CV

Institution: IUSS

E-mail: mario.martina@iusspavia.it

Voice:  +39 0382 375846

Fax:     +39 0382 375899

Skype: mariollv

Research area: Hydrological Risk, Stochastic Hydrology, Catastrophe Modelling

Instructor 2: Arosio Marcello: official webpage and CV

Institution: IUSS

E-mail: marcello.arosio@iusspavia.it

Bio: I am a specialist in disaster risk assessment of natural hazard. I have hands-on working experience in projects related to water engineer, climate-proofing infrastructure, climate risk management and academic research in complex adaptive systems. I am Assistant Professor in flood risk assessment at IUSS University in Pavia.
I am now working on the MEDiateFRAME, NOCTUA research project and in the past I worked on NEW
and RIDES projects: respectively multi-hazard and graph theory applied to risk assessment, satellite sources to monitor and assess the risks and CBA analysis to design infrastructure.
I coordinate the elaboration of an Adaptation Fund’s proposal for UNESCO “Haiti Implementing Measures for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Mitigation of School Facilities in Haiti” (10 million budget for 3 year projects, accepted and financed).
I achieved a PhD in Understanding and Managing Extremes, I have been a UNV Specialist in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction at UNDP VietNam and a researcher at RIMES (Thailand) as Engineer-Risk Assessment on extreme weather related to climate change. I wrote the Technical-organisational guidelines for a local Civil Protection system (UNI/PdR 47:2018).