Preliminary agenda

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orthern European FRIEND & AMHY

Joint Low Flow and Drought Meeting

November 10 – 12, 2008

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University

Mlynska dolina

842 15 Bratislava

Slovakia
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
Sunday, November 09, 2008 Arrival of NE-FRIEND & AMHY LF & D group participants
Monday, November 10, 2008

08.00 – 13.00 Arrival of NE-FRIEND & AMHY LF & D group participants, Registration

14.00 – 17.30: JOINT NE-FRIEND & AMHY LF & D GROUPS administrative meeting
14:00-14:10 Opening ceremony, welcome of participants by representative of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava and by UNESCO representative

14:10-14:20 Introduction of participants

14:20-14:45 Minutes of previous NE-FRIEND Low Flow and drought group meeting (Perugia, July 2007)

14:45-15:30 International activities (GEWEX, global change, FRIEND-HELP, FRIEND Fes conference, NE-FRIEND Coordinators meeting, Koblenz, NE-FRIEND other project groups, EU programs.....)

15:30-16:00 Coffee/Tea break
16:00-16:15 New structure: merger of NE FRIEND and part of AMHY (EURO FRIEND)

16:15-16:45 Recent research plans of NE FRIEND and AMHY Low flow and drought groups

16:45-17:15 Discussion on the future of Low flow and drought groups

17:15-17:30 Election of the new EURO FRIEND Low Flow and Drought coordinator

Tuesday, September 11, 2008
Session 1: Data – Indicators – drought monitoring

Chairperson: Fendekova Miriam

Rapporteur: Fleig Anne
08:30-08:50 Tokarczyk Tamara: Widely applied indices for drought assessment and Polish application

08:50-09:10 Wong Wai Kwok: A statistical study of drought characteristics in the Zhujiang region, China

09:10-09:30 Rossi Giuseppe, Caporali Enrica: Regional analysis of low flow indices in Tuscany (Italy)

09:30-09:50 Colleuille Hervé, Beldring, S., Mengistu, Z., Andersen, J., Overlie, T., Haugen, L.E., Wong Wai Kwok: The monitoring of groundwater conditions with real-time observations and modelling tools
09:50-10:10 Coffee/Tea break
10:10-10:30 Aksoy Hafzullah: Baseflow separation tool: AdUKIH

10:30-10:50 Gregor Miloš, Fendeková Miriam: BFI 2+ program utilization for baseflow separation

Discussion_Session_2:_Drought_generating_processes_and_ModellIng__Chairperson:_Caporali_Enrica*__Rapporteur:_Stahl_Kerstin'>10:50-11:20 Discussion
Session 2: Drought generating processes and ModellIng

Chairperson: Caporali Enrica*

Rapporteur: Stahl Kerstin
11:20-11:40 van Lanen Henny, ten Doeschate Anneke, Oostertwijk Jacob, Tallaksen Lena M.: Drought: climate and catchment control in various regions

11:40-12:00 Querner Erik: Drought analysis using the Regional Hydrological Model SIMGRO

12:00-12:20 van Loon Anne, Rakovec Oldřich, Horáček Stanislav, Tallaksen Lena M., Hisdal Hege, Perez Miguel C., van Lanen Henny, Novický Oldřich: Drought propagation in contrasting catchments in Norway, Czech Republic and Spain: preliminary results

12:20-12:40 Lang Claire: Low flow in the Rhein-Meuse basin: characterization, processes and forecasting

12:40-13:00 Discussion
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
Session 3: drought patterns and CHARACTERIZATION

Chairperson: van Lanen Henny*

Rapporteur: Querner Erik
14:00-14:20 Stahl, Kerstin, Hisdal Hege, Tallaksen Lena M., Hannaford Jamie, Saquet Eric, Demuth Siegfried: Trends in low flows and droughts from streamflow records of an updated European Water Archive

14:20-14:40 Jakubowski Wojciech: Trends of low flow characteristics in the Upper Nysa Klodzka River Basin

14:40-15:00 Fiala Theodor: Trends of mean and low flows in the Czech Republic

15:00-15:20 Schumann Sybille, Bawol D., Herrmann A., Duncker D.: Changes in the flow regime of Lange Bramke basin (Harz Mts., Germany) towards elongated and intensified low flow period in summer

15:20-15:40 Kasei Raymond: Drought frequency in West Africa, A pattern of Climate change
15:40-16:00 Coffee/Tea break
16:00-16:20 Fendeková Miriam, Stojkovová Michaela, Machlica Andrej: Influence of meteorological drought on groundwater in two catchments of Slovakia with different hydrogeological conditions

16:20-16:40 Zorba Petrit, Pudja Migena, Bibe Brunilda: Drought in the Albanian Western Lowland

Session 4: Large-scale drivers - Teleconnections

Chairperson: Tallaksen Lena M.

Rapporteur: Hisdal Hege
16:40-17:00 Fleig Anne, Tallaksen Lena M., Hisdal Hege, Hannah David, Stahl Kerstin: Regional hydrological droughts and weather types in N-W Europe

17:00-17:20 Gudmundsson Lukas, Tallaksen Lena M., Stahl Kerstin, Lange Holger: Spatio-temporal correlations of inter-annual variability in European streamflow quantities

17:20-17:50 Discussion
18:30 Dinner
Wednesday, September 12, 2008

Session 5: Drought forecasting and prediction

Chairperson: Aksoy Hafzullah*

Rapporteur: Dakova Snejanna
08:30-08:50 Hisdal Hege, Engeland Kolbjørn, Orthe Nils Kristian, Voksø Astrid: A low flow index map for Norway – From regression equations to a web-application

08:50-09:10 Laaha Gregor: Applying the national low flow estimation procedure to the Austrian province Burgenland

Session 6: human impacts on drought- Global IMPACT

Chairperson: Laaha Gregor*

Rapporteur: Schumann Sybille*
09:10-09:30 Tallaksen Lena M., Stahl Kerstin, van Lanen Henny: Climate change impacts on low flow and drought – an overview

09:30-09:50 Dakova Snejanna: Identification and estimation of low flow and drought events in Bulgaria – present state and tasks

09:50-10:10 Coffee/Tea break
10:10-10:30 Saquet Eric, Dupeyrat Anne, Agosta Cécile, Hendrickx Frédéric: Impact of business-as-usual water management on low flows under modified climate for Garonne catchment (S-W France)

10:30-10:50 Horáček Stanislav, Kašpárek Ladislav, Novický Oldřich: Estimation of climate change impact on water resources by using BILAN water balance model

10:50-11:10 Slivová Valéria: Groundwater drought in a catchment affected by water abstraction

11:10-11:40 Discussion

11:40-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:10 Rapporteur Session 1: DATA –INDICATORS - DROUGHT MONITORING - Main Findings

13:10-13:20 Rapporteur Session 2: DROUGHT GENERATING PROCESSES AND MODELLING - Main Findings

13:20-13:30 Rapporteur Session 3: DROUGHT PATTERNS AND CHARACTERIZATION - Main Findings

13:30-13:40 Rapporteur Session 4: LARGE-SCALE DRIVERS - TELECONNECTIONS - Main Findings

13:40-13:50 Rapporteur Session 5: DROUGHT FORECASTING AND PREDICTION - Main Findings

13:50-14:00 Rapporteur Session 6: HUMAN IMPACTS ON DROUGHT- GLOBAL IMPACT - Main Findings

14:00-14:30 Discussion and Summarization: Conclusions and Recommendations for UNESCO-IHP VII Programme

14:30-15:00 Closing session

Summary of Action points

Next meeting EURO FRIEND Low Flow and Drought group

Remark * - to be agreed