Training objectives

Introduction to basic concepts :

  • Error and uncertainty

  • Deterministic (classical) and probabilistic (standardized) approaches

  • Ways of expressing uncertainties
  • Limits of uncertainty assessment and the need for data validation

3D EAU training

Introduction to measurement uncertainties in hydrological quantities (rainfall - flow - concentration)

Program

  • Basic quantities and derived quantities.

  • Type A and type B methods
  • Repeatability and reproducibility

  • Common orders of magnitude for hydraulic and hydrological measurements
  • Monte Carlo method
  • Application to flow measurement

  • Analytical method
  • Application to simple cases: sum or difference, product or ratio, uncertainty balance, verification by control measurement
  • Application to the evaluation of the flow discharged by a weir via one or more height measurements
  • Application to the accumulation of chronological data

Random and systematic errors

Method reliability and accuracy

Other training courses

Flow measurement in wastewater systems

Integration of storage valves in a network model

Introduction to measurement uncertainties in hydrological quantities