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The 4th IAHR-WMO-IAHS Training Course on Stream gauging is intended to be held as part of the RiverFlow 2018 conference, with separate registration.
Three days will be dedicated to Hydrometry basics, Field and classroom exercises and Recent advances (technology and uncertainty analysis), by internationally recognized lecturers (updated program as PDF file). The audience will be students and professional field hydrologists. The first three courses were held in Brescia (Italy, 2011), Andong (Korea, 2013) and Hanoi (Vietnam, 2014). The one-day seminar was held in Queenstown (New Zealand) in 2016.
Venue
The course venue is at Irstea building (room Rhône), exact address: 5 rue de la Doua 69100 Villeurbanne, France. This is not the same venue as that of the conference (Espace Tête d’Or).
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Schedule:
Sunday September 2nd, 2018 – Hydrometry basics
Monday September 3rd, 2018 – Field gauging exercises
Tuesday September 4th, 2018 – Modern gauging technologies and uncertainty analysis
Contact: for sponsoring the course, proposing exhibition or for any information, please contact Jérôme Le Coz.
Language: English will be the official language of the course.
International committee:
Tommaso Abrate, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
Alexandre Hauet, EDF, Grenoble, France
Prof. Ichiro Fujita, Kobe University, Japan
Ton Hoitink, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Boosik Kang (Chair of the course), Dankook University, Korea
Dongsu Kim, Dankook University, Korea
Jérôme Le Coz (Vice-Chair of the course), Irstea, Lyon, France
Marian Muste, University of Iowa, USA
Prof. Roberto Ranzi, University of Brescia, Italy
Local organising committee:
Jérôme Le Coz, Alexis Buffet and Frédéric Lacroix (Irstea)
Alexandre Hauet and Arnaud Belleville (EDF)
Gilles Pierrefeu and Pierre Bompart (CNR)
Pierre-Marie Bechon, Elodie Dufeu, Joël Hoffman and Yoan Longefay (France’s national hydrological service)
Programme
Download the programme here.
Presentations can be downloaded from the links in the following programme.
DAY 1 – HYDROMETRY BASICS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2018 8:30 – 17:30
08:30 Registration
09:00 Jérôme LE COZ Welcome addresses from the Local Organising Committee and SHF/GDH
09:15 Tommaso ABRATE Welcome addresses from WMO and introduction to 2nd edition of the WMO manual on stream gauging (2010)
09:30 Jérôme LE COZ Introduction to the course and overview of hydrometry
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Alexandre HAUET Stream gauging techniques: velocity-area, ADCP, dilution, volumetric…
11:30 FUJITA Ichiro Principles of surface velocity gaugings (floats, video, radar)
12:00 Jérôme LE COZ Indirect determination of peak discharge (slope-area and image processing)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Tommaso ABRATE Selection of gauging station sites
14:30 Alex HAUET EDF hydro-monitoring network
15:00 Jérôme LE COZ Discharge rating using the index velocity method
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Roberto RANZI Stage-discharge rating curves: I. Methods
16:30 Marian MUSTE Stage-discharge rating curves: II. Issues (hysteresis, Variable slope, Rating shifts)
17:00 Roberto RANZI Measurement of discharge by precalibrated measuring structure and miscellaneous methods
17:30 End
DAY 2 – HYDROMETRY PRACTICES (FIELD EXERCISES)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2018 8:00 – 18:00
08:00 Bus departure from course venue
Field exercises and visit of a hydrometric station (Azergues River at Lozanne, 792 km²)
Participants will be split in break-out groups (parallel sessions).
- Wading gaugings (different types of mechanical/acoustic current-meters)
- ADCPs
- Image velocimetry (LSPIV)
- Tracer dilution
13:00 Lunch on site
Bus transfer back to course venue
Classroom exercises
- Discharge computation exercises
- Stage-discharge rating curve computation exercises
DAY 3 – RECENT ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018 9:00 – 17:15
09:00 Joël HOFFMAN Presentation of the French national hydrometry network
09:20 Tommaso ABRATE Innovation for Hydrometry, presentation of the HydroHub
09:40 Alexandre HAUET Assessment of the performance of flow measurement instruments: verification, calibration, comparison
10:00 Ton HOITINK Hydroacoustic instruments: capabilities and limitations, visualisation
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 FUJITA Ichiro Non-intrusive velocimetry techniques using image processing
11:30 SPONSORS Technological advances in private sectors (short messages) : Kisters, Teledyne, Discharge
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Roberto RANZI Uncertainty of discharge measurement: The Hydrometric Uncertainty Guidance (HUG) and uncertainty of discharge measurement by conventional current meter methods
14:30 Marian MUSTE Uncertainty analysis of ADCP gaugings: computations (GUM)
15:00 Jérôme LE COZ Uncertainty analysis of ADCP gaugings: empirical assessment (interlaboratory experiments)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Ton HOITINK Methods for data processing and uncertainty analysis of H-ADCPs
16:30 Jérôme LE COZ Uncertainty analysis of rating curves, streamflow records and hydrological indicators
17:00 Jérôme LE COZ Closing comments and feedback on the course
17:15 End
Registration
Participants will have to register in two steps using the dedicated website:
https://www.azur-colloque.fr/IRSTEA/inscription/preinscription/20
1 – Application (before May 15th, 2018)
2 – Payment (before August 31st, 2018, using credit card only)
The number of participants is limited, therefore we cannot guarantee that all the applications (step 1) will be accepted. Note that before your application has been accepted, you are not registered yet.
Registration as participant to the course for the 3 days will include access to the lectures, transportation to the field site, use of measuring equipment, lunches and coffee breaks. Registration does not include accommodation and dinners. Registration for the third day only is possible.
In case of registration cancellation, no refund will be provided.
If you need that the invoice be addressed to a different name than the participant name, you must indicate it using the dedicated form (no change will be possible after that).
Fees
Full 3-day course:
- Students: 50 €
- Regular participants: 100 €
Third day only (Tuesday September, 4th):
- 75 €
