Huub Scholten

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Harmonising Quality Assurance in model based
catchment and river basin managementHarmoniQuA
Filling up methodological gaps in the
infrastructure for model based decision support
for water management

• Huub Scholten
• Wageningen University, information technology
  group

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Towards an infrastructure for model based water
management cf. WFD
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State-of-the-art in QA for model based water
management

• Aim of HarmoniQuA
• Make the grey part
• clear
• more objective
• unambiguous
• support modelling

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HarmoniQuA aims to fill in methodological gaps
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HarmoniQuA the project

• EC funded project
• start Jan 2002
• 2.57 million Euro project (of which 1.65 million
  Euro will be funded by EC in EESD program),
  contract n EVK1-CT-2001-00097
• Workplan
• 4 years
• consortium of 12 partners in 10 countries (all
  key players)
• aim
• developing methodological parts of an
  infrastructure for water management which helps
  and supports modellers and other stakeholders in
  all steps of the MS process

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HarmoniQuA partners

• WU, Netherlands
• GEUS, Denmark
• NTUA, Greece
• CEH-Wallingford, UK
• WLDelft Hydraulics, Netherlands
• Cemagref, France
• BfG, Germany
• SMHI, Sweden
• VITUKI Plc, Hungary
• UniDo, Germany
• LNEC, Portugal
• DHI Hydroinform a.s., Czech Republic

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HarmoniQuA workpackage 1

• Knowledge on MS for water management
• collecting knowledge
• finding filling gaps
• structuring knowledge
• glossary with terms and concepts
• generic part with Dos and Donts
• parts specific for each domain
• groundwater
• precipitation runoff models
• hydrodynamic models (incl. sediment and
  morphology)
• flood forecasting models
• water quality and emission models
• biota models (ecology)
• socio-economical models
• software aspects

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HarmoniQuA workpackages 2 (1)

• Knowledge Base
• design, implementation and filling with knowledge
  from WP1
• enabling specific treatment of
• user types
• modelers
• manager / decision maker / client / customer
• general public
• auditors
• domains (see previous slide)
• types of jobs
• routine
• standard / normal / professional
• research / model development
• types of application
• planning
• design
• operational management

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HarmoniQuA workpackages 2 (2)

• Developing tools
• Guideline tool providing guidelines (dos,
  donts, glossary, etc.)
• supporting users throughout a MS project
• structuring negotiations between stakeholders
• Monitoring tool recording what is done in MS
  project
• facilitating re-use of models and/or results
• to facilitate auditing
• Reporting tool specific types of reports
• different types of stakeholders (modelers,
  client, model users, policy makers, problem
  owners, concerned members of the public)
• Learning tool learn from previous projects

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HarmoniQuA workpackages 3

• Testing tools, knowledge base
• 2 series of 10 real life case studies
• series 1 single domain or multi-domain
• series 2 multi-domain or integrated studies
  (incl. socio-economics)
• single domain 1 domain
• multi-domain 2 or more domains
• integrated 2 or more domains, incl.
  socio-economic aspects

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HarmoniQuA workpackages 4

• Dissemination and exploitation
• website for internal (QuickPlace)
• external communication http//www.info.wau.nl
  /HarmoniQuA/
• courses and courseware
• academic
• professionals
• dissemination to all stakeholders including
  concerned members of the public
• exploitation plans have to be developed

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HarmoniQuA workpackages overview
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Functionality of HarmoniQuA
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Discussion

• Co-operation within the Catchmod-cluster
• HarmonIT software interfaces
• Tisza River project testing
• HarmoniBMW HarmoniCoP cover more detailed
  aspects of methodology
• Interaction with interested people
• website, discussion forum
• workshop, September 2003, UK
• Are all pieces of the infrastructure
  found/covered/???

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HarmoniQuA more information

• http//www.info.wau.nl/harmoniqua/