CIPRHES (2021-2025)

About the project

• Funding: ANR (France)
• Coordinator: Charles Perrin (INRAE Antony)
• Partners: INRAE Antony & Lyon, BRGM, EDF, CNRM/Météo-France, université de Lorraine (LOTERR)
• Duration: 2021-2025
• Website: https://www.inrae.fr/ciprhes/
• Contact: Charles Perrin

The CIPRHES project aims at making a step forward compared to existing approaches, by building an integrated chain for drought and low-flow forecasting based on an original multi-model approach, by developing seamless meteorological forecasts from one day to several months forward, integrated hydrological modelling and exhaustive uncertainty quantification methods.

The project at a glance:

• A forecasting chain that will be “crash-tested” on a large set of catchments to evaluate its performance and robustness
• Forecasts that will be evaluated according to their usefulness to improve water management and to meet the water demand for a few strategic socio-economic sectors (hydropower and agriculture)
• A multi-model framework that will use six hydrological models developed by the project partners representing state-of-the-art solutions to simulate low flows
• A database that will include more than 100 catchments spread in France representing a large variety of hydroclimatic conditions and water uses
• Data that will be extracted mainly from national databases (climate, hydrology, groundwater, water use) and from regional or local sources for specific case studies