Aurore, a powerful autumn storm, hit the North of France during the night from Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 October 2021. Strong winds were reported and they resulted in damages. Anemometers operated by HM&Co also measured strong winds with peak value 102 km/h at the ENPC campus and 118 km/h at the RW-Turb measurement campaign...
In mid-October, following the end of planned work on the roof of Carnot building, HM&Co re-installed three disdrometers in the framework of the TARANIS observatory. Daily quicklooks are available here. .
New devices were installed on HM&Co radar platform in late August to complement TARANIS observatory existing ones. More precisely, a 3D sonic anemometer and a mini meteorological stations were installed on offset arms attached to the radar platform. They will provide local wind and meteorological data at high resolution (100 Hz and 1 Hz respectively)....
March 31, 2021: kick-off of the ANR JCJC project “RW-Turb” The kick-off meeting of the ANR JCJC RW-Turb project took place on 31/03/2021. RW-Turb relies on the expertise of HM&Co in measurement and modelling across wide range of spatio-temporal scales of atmospheric turbulence and rainfall to quantify the impact of the latter on wind power...
June 2, 2020: kick-off of the project “Building for the Future, Living in the Future” in the framework of the 3rd Investment Plan for the Future. Opening by the ENPC/HM&Co movie “No limit to shared value”.
Great e-Debate “Epidemics, Urban Systems and Geosciences” This debate was held on Monday 4th May 12:30 CET on occasion of “EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online” and as an extension of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) session ITS2.10 / NP3.3: “Urban Geoscience Complexity: Transdisciplinarity for the Urban Transition”. e-Convener: Daniel Schertzer (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech) / Co-conveners: Alexander Baklanov (World Meteorological...
Townhall TM19 Cities and Interdisciplinary Geosciences TM19: Thu, 11 Apr, 19:00–20:00 room 1.85 (green level) Geosciences are more than ever solicited in their full interdisciplinarity to meet the urgent need to make our cities climate neutral and proof, smart, safe, resilient, sustainable, inclusive, enjoyable, and to increase well-being and health. This is testified by a...
Day 2019 of the Chair “Hydrology for Resilient Cities” Ecole des Ponts – Fondation des Ponts – Veolia “Accelerate city readiness for a changing climate” Tue. 7 May 9:00-17:00, amphithéâtre V, Veolia Headquarters, 3 rue Madeleine Vionnet, 93300 Aubervilliers, France
During the summer of 2018, some first tests were made to measure the different components of the energy balance of the Blue Green Wave. A radiometer (lent by Kipp & Zonen) measured the net radiation taking into account both short- and long- wave radiation emitted by the atmosphere and the soil. Several temperature sensors were...
On the 31st of August, twelve students, from the Master in Metropolitan Analysis, Design and Engineering at the Amsterdam AMS Institute, spent one day at the HM&Co laboratory. They visited the pilot sites Blue Green Wave and Taranis Observatory. During two interactive workshops, they had the opportunity to manipulate rainfall data and evaluate the new...