Compound flood studies across scales in Denmark
Speaker(s)
Description
The presentation will include key findings and discussion points from studies that all address flood risks in and around Denmark.
Summary
The presentation will include key findings and discussion points from studies that all address flood risks in and around Denmark. Key topics include: Compound floods from storm surges and streams, time series length and robustness, dynamic vs static modelling, economic damages, sequenced compound dynamics and the authoritative approach to extreme storm surge protection levels for decision-makers.
Speaker
MSc (2008) and PhD (2013) from University of Copenhagen doing dynamically coupled hydrology/land-surface/regional climate model simulations using MIKE SHE and HIRHAM5.
Research career from research assistant to senior researcher and head of group at University of Copenhagen (2008-2009) and the technical University of Denmark (2013-2022) doing mainly modelling and statistically based climate change impacts within floods, socio-economic damage costs and the water-energy nexus.
Currently working as senior researcher and head of two research teams (regional oceanic modelling and precipitation/radar, ~18 staff members + 4 supervision of PhD students) at the weather research department of the Danish Meteorological Institute. Here, research teams conduct basic research alongside model development within models that operate 24/7 for forecasting/warning purposes as well as towards the public (www.dmi.dk).
