Theme: Mainstreaming historical hydrology

5th Symposium | 03rd May, 2014
 

[Translate to English:] Vienna Catchment Science Symposium 2014

© Peter Haas

Historical hydrology has been a niche discipline in the past with limited links to other hydrological fields of enquiry.

Given the recent interest in hydrological change and longer time scales we now need to fully exploit the wealth of information from historical records in the past centuries in order to advance hydroclimatology, hydrological process understanding, stochastic hydrology and hydrological design.

The aim of the 2014 Symposium was to strengthen the link between historical hydrology and other hydrological fields of enquiry. During the course of the Symposium, four presentations described the interface of historical hydrology with other fields of hydrology, illustrating what can be learned from a historical perspective.

Programme

Time Sessions Location
08:30 Tea, coffee, pastries and greetings Foyer 3rd floor
08:45 Welcome and Introduction
Günter Blöschl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Kuppelsaal
09:00 Historical hydroclimatology and floods
Jürg Luterbacher, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Kuppelsaal
10:00 Historical process hydrology - learning from case studies
Rudolf Brazdil, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Kuppelsaal
11:00 Tea and coffee Foyer 3rd floor
11:30 Historical, stochastic-dynamic hydrology
Rui Perdigao and Andrea Kiss, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Kuppelsaal
12:30 Historical hydrology and decision making
Mariano Barriendos, University of Barcelona, Spain
Kuppelsaal
13:30 Lunch Foyer 3rd Floor
14:30 Small Group Discussion Sessions
Group 1: Exploiting historical data bases
Brainstorming strengths and weaknesses of available data bases and meta data
Aim: to identify the role of data quality
Moderator: Rudolf Brazdil
 
  Group 2: Representativeness of the past for the future
Brainstorming changes in hydrological extremes and their boundary conditions
Aim: to understand the relevance of the greatest past extremes for present day decision making
Moderator: Mariano Barriendos
 
  Group 3: Historical socio-hydrology
Brainstorming long-term interactions between people and water and how these evolve
Aim: to identify evidence for quantifying these interactions
Moderator: Andrea Kiss
 
16:30 Tea and coffee Foyer 3rd floor
17:00 Plenary: Exchange of group findings Kuppelsaal
18:30 Evening drinks reception followed by dinner Foyer 3rd floor