The Court of Miracle of Hydrology: what can we learn from apparently monstrous hydrological behaviours?
Résumé
The Court of Miracles of Hydrology is the unusual name for a one-of-a-kind workshop, which took place 18-20 June at ENGREF in Paris, France. The workshop was entirely dedicated to hydrological monsters and outliers, i.e. to those catchments, hydrometeorological situations and extreme events that somehow cause unexpected or apparently unsolvable problems in terms of measuring and observing, behaviour understanding and modelling, uncertainty quantification, and decision making in an operational context. Gathering more than 80 hydrologists from 13 countries, it succeeded in bringing modellers and managers together in order to share and discuss their failure stories. Presentations and posters tackled many topics, among which are problems in observation, modelling, communication between modeller and end-users, decision-making and uncertainty quantification. The presentation will provide a summary of the main thoughts that could be drawn from this workshop.