XXIVth CONFERENCE OF THE DANUBIAN COUNTRIES
2.-4.6.2008, Bled, Slovenia

CONFERENCE TOPICS

1. Hydrological forecasting
• Real-time informational forecasting systems
• Models for rainfall-runoff processes
• Other hydrological forecast models

2. Hydro-meteorological extremes, floods and droughts
• Meteorological data and hydrological modeling
• Long-term statistical methods
• Examples of extreme flood and drought events
 

3. Global climate change and hydrological processes
• Climate change impact on the hydrological cycle
• Hydrological balance model
• Ecological aspects of hydrological changes
• Adaptation strategies in water management

4. Water management
• Consequences of the EU Water Framework Directive and the EU flood directive
• Water framework directive and integrated water quality processes
• Exchange of hydrological products, methods and models
• Legal and administrative challenges for integrated water management

5. Floods, morphological processes, erosion, sediment transport and sedimentation 
• Monitoring of watershed and river bed/reservoir erosion and sedimentation
• Models of erosion and sediment transport
• Flood directive and integrated flood management

6. Developments in hydrology
• Prediction in ungauged basins PUB
• Lessons learned from experimental river basins
• Examples from FRIEND,HELP, European Research Basins (ERB)