Urban Hydrology
Research projects
FloodCitiSense: Early warning service for urban pluvial floods for and by citizens and city authorities
FloodCitiSense
About: The FloodCitiSense project aims at integrating crowdsourced hydrological data, collaboratively monitored by local stakeholders, including citizens, making use of low-cost sensors and web-based technologies, into a flood early warning system.
My role: Project partner, supervisor
Co-funded by: JPI Europe, ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF)
Period: 2017-2020
MUFFIN: Multi-scale Urban Flood Forecasting, from local tailored systems to a pan-European service
MUFFIN
About: In MUFFIN, meteorologists and hydrologists work closely together to improve urban rainfall estimation and flood forecasting. We use data from the Xband polarimetric rainfall radar in Rotterdam in combination with local weather stations to develop high resolution rainfall nowcasts over the urban area.
My role: Project partner
Co-funded by: JPI Europe, Waterworks
Period: 2016-2019
BRIGAID:Bridging the Gap for Innovations in Disaster Resilience
brigaid.eu
About: In BRIGAID, we investigate how low-cost GNSS sensors can be used for water vapour retrieval over cities in order to improve high resolution rainfall forecasts.
My role: Project partner, PhD supervisor
Co-funded by: H2020 EU
Period: 2016-2019
RainGain
www.raingain.eu
About: RAINGAIN is a transnational project aimed at improving the prediction of pluvial floods in our cities. RainGain develops and tests innovative tools and practices based on the use of high resolution radars in four pilot cities: Leuven, London, Paris, Rotterdam.
My role: Project Coordinator
Co-funded by: Interreg NWE IVB
Period: 2011-2016
RainSense
www.ams-institute.org/solution/rain-sense/
About: Rain Sense will make Amsterdam more resilient to flooding, and to damage from severe weather conditions like those experienced several times this summer, not least the torrential rainfall on 28 July 2014.
My role: Project Coordinator
Co-funded by: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
Period: 2014-2015
OASIS
www.oasislmf.org
About: OASIS aims to develop a an open architecture loss modelling framework for the global community. The role of TU Delft is to develop damage functions for pluvial flooding in urban areas.
My role: Project member
Co-funded by: KIC-Climate
Phase 1: 2011-2014. Phase 2: under construction