Storm Designer: From Rainfall Data to Flood Simulation in Minutes!

I’m excited to unveil Storm Designer – our latest tool in STE that revolutionizes how we approach flood risk assessment!

What is Storm Designer?
A powerful module that transforms historical precipitation data into actionable flood modeling inputs. Simply put: it creates design storm hyetographs based on IDF (Intensity-Duration-Frequency) curves for any return period and duration.

What You’ll See in This Video:
1️⃣ Data Processing: Using 20 years of precipitation data (2000-2019)
2️⃣ Creating IDF Curves: Deriving rainfall intensity relationships for different return periods
3️⃣ Storm Design: Generating a 100-year, 15-hour duration hyetograph for our Area of Interest
4️⃣ Seamless Integration: Directly feeding the synthetic storm into STE’s 2D Shallow Water Equation simulator
5️⃣ Real-time Visualization: Watching the flood develop and spread across the terrain

Why This Matters for Practitioners:
✔ Time-Saving: No more manual hyetograph creation or switching between tools
✔ Accuracy: Matches IDF relationships precisely for reliable results
✔ Workflow Integration: From rainfall data to flood maps in one continuous environment
✔ Flexibility: Design storms for any duration and return period your project requires

Perfect For:
🔸 Flood risk assessment projects
🔸 Urban drainage design
🔸 Dam safety evaluations
🔸 Climate change adaptation studies
🔸 Infrastructure resilience planning

The integration of Storm Designer with our 2D SWE simulator creates an end-to-end solution that bridges the gap between hydrology and hydraulics – all within the STE platform.

Watch the workflow in action below! From raw data to flood simulation in minutes.

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👉 What flood modeling challenges could this streamline for your team?