Research Seminar - Extreme Rainfall Events

Program:

13:15 Welcome and Introduction, Lars Nyberg (Karlstad University)

13:25 The German flood in summer 2021: what have we learnt and what are the new questions for flood research? Presentation by Prof. Mariele Evers, Department of Geography, Bonn University, Germany.

Mariele Evers is a CNDS fellow and has many years’ experience of disaster risk research in Europe, Asia and Africa.

13:55 Short break

14:00 A catastrophe model for cloudbursts in Sweden based on the Oasis platform. Presentation by Msc. Daniel Knös, catastrophe model developer at the reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter.

Daniel Knös is a member of the CNDS external reference group and has been involved in the research project SPLASH (Swedish pluvial modelling analysis and safety handling). Here you can find a recent publication from this project: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420921006403.

14:30 SPARC: Stakeholder participation for climate adaptation - data crowdsourcing for improved urban flood risk management. Introduction to a new CNDS project, funded by Formas. Presentation by Lars Nyberg (Karlstad University).

14:40  Questions and discussion

15:00  End of seminar

För att delta, var snäll och anmäl er på den här länken senast 11 januari. Men det är även öppet för sen anmälan.
To participate in the seminar, please register here by 11 January: 
https://uu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5crcOmsrTkqHdABHxlaFxN7GuQdiBLD32QQ

(After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please log in 10 min before the meeting starts, to make sure it works.)

Kontaktperson: Lars Nyberg