EMS Awards Programme

Awards Programme for Young Scientist Travel Award

The European Meteorological Society invited applications for a Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA) to support the participation of young scientists at the BALWOIS 2010 Conference on Water Observation and Information System for decision Support, 25 - 29 May 2010, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia.

The information about Eligibility and Application procedure : click here...

Deadlines :

(1) 15 February : Authors have to inform about their willing to submit a paper
(2) 31 March : Submission of candidate papers for selection
(3) 30 June: Confirmation of paper selection (or rejection)
(4) 15 September : Improved papers for peer review
(5) End of year : Special Issue publication

Ohrid, 26 May 2010

The selected candidate is Dr. Hasan Ozdemir from Istanbul University, Geography Department, Physical Geography Division, Istanbul,Turkey for the following research (paper 2010-751):

Reconstruction of Çokal Dam (Çanakkale-Turkey)

Breach Flooding Using 1D Hydraulic Modeling

Hasan Ozdemir¹, Cengiz Akbulak², Hasan Özcan³

¹Istanbul University, Geography Department, Physical Geography Division, Istanbul,Turkey

²Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Geography,Istanbul, Turkey.

³Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Soil Science, Istanbul, Turkey.

Abstract

The aim of the study is modeling of Çokal Dam-Breaching using 1D hydraulic modeling and calibrating of the model result with the real flood event. For these purposes, TIN model which is created 10 m contour interval digitized from 1:25000 topographic maps, land use maps of Evreşe plain, geometric properties of Koca Stream and technical properties of the dam were used. All these data will be processed and analyzed using Geographic Information System (GIS), and Hec-GeoRAS and HEC-RAS hydraulic modeling. The result of model was calibrated using real flood event. The study concludes that DEM is less important for dam-break induced flood due to a large amount of water. However, the resolution of DEM, geometric descriptions of river course affects the model result. To able to provide more accurate inundation model, the representation of topography, river geometry must be more precise.

Key words: Embankment dam breaching, Flood, GIS, Hydraulic Modeling.