California Water and Environmental Modelling Forum

Rob Lamb, Director of the JBA Trust, has delivered presentations on ”experiences with high performance 2D flood modelling” and “reflections on 2D flood inundation model benchmarking” at two sessions of the California Water and Environmental Modelling Forum annual conference this week.

The theme of the conference is ’20 Years of Supporting the California Water Community’.  As California continues to experience a potentially record setting drought and declares a state of emergency, sharing best practice, technical advances and experiences of water and environmental modelling are increasingly important.

For more information about CWEMF please follow the link: www.cwemf.org/

These images show the severity of California’s drought.  Folsom Lake, a reservior in Northern California, was at 97 percent of total capacity on 20 July 2011 and 130 percent of its historical average.  In the 16 Jan 2014 photograph, the lake was at 17 percent of total capacity and 35 percent of its historical average.

Image credit: California Department of Water Resources