Course

ENV-524: Hydrological risks and structures

Summary

Le cours est une introduction à l'hydrologie statistique avec un accent mis sur l'hydrologie des petits bassins-versants de montagne. Le cours comprend une introduction générale à la gestion des risques. Puis il présente la théorie des valeurs extrêmes et enfin des modèles hydrologiques.

Lectures

Instructor

Christophe Ancey

Christophe Ancey has both a PhD and an engineering degree granted by the Ecole Centrale de Paris and the Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute. Trained as a hydraulics engineer, he did his doctoral work under the supervision of Pierre Evesque from 1994 to 1997 on rheology of granular flows in simple shearing. He was recruited in 1998 as a researcher in rheology at the Cemagref as part of the Erosion Protection team directed by Jean-Pierre Feuvrier, which has since become the laboratoire "Storm Erosion, Snow and Avalanche Laboratory". Parallel to this research activity, with Claude Charlier He set up a consulting firm for engineering contracting called Toraval (www.toraval.fr), which has become the major player in the avalanche field in France. Since 2004, He is a fluid-mechanics professor at EPFL and he is the director of the Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory. He is associate editor of Water Resources Research, one of the leading journal in the field.

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/hydrological-risks-and-structures-ENV-524

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/ENV-524

Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Christophe Ancey

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/hydrological-risks-and-structures-ENV-524

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/ENV-524

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