Research
Shaping resilience through collaborative research
Working collaboratively with colleagues, fellow industry academics, universities and non-profit organisations, we’re highlighting significant research papers, reports and technical guidance documents that are helping to shape the way we build resilience to climate change.
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Assimilation of satellite flood likelihood data improves inundation mapping from a simulation library system
- Contribution by:Shelton, K.L., Bevington, J.
- Publish date:25.07.2024
This paper focusses on how assimilating observed flood extents from remote sensing into Flood Foresight outputs could improve predicted flood extents.
- Tags: Flood Resilience Hydraulics
- Published by:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions
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Open methods in operational hydrology and hydraulics
- Contribution by:Hankin, B., Faulkner, D., Haseldine, K.
- Publish date:01.05.2024
Research led by JBA, with contributions from academic partners, into the potential for open science, open data and open code concepts in operational flood hydrology.
- Tags: Hydraulics Hydrology
- Published by:Environment Agency
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The importance of retention times in Natural Flood Management interventions
- Contribution by:Hankin, B.
- Publish date:18.04.2024
This study builds on existing research into the importance of retention times in Natural Flood Management to provide guidance on designing effective retention schemes. This includes the development of a spreadsheet tool for retention times.
- Tags: Catchment Management and Natural Flood Management Flood Resilience
- Published by:Proceedings of IAHS, Copernicus Publications
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Gauged and historical abrupt wave front floods (‘walls of water’) in Pennine rivers, northern England
- Contribution by:Archer, D., Watkiss, S., Warren, S., Lamb, R.
- Publish date:10.04.2024
The latest in a series of papers by David Archer and colleagues at JBA and Newcastle University, this paper explores a type of flood that can pose a danger to life and improvements that could be made to monitoring, flood estimation and forecasting.
- Tags: Flood Resilience Hydraulics Hydrology
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management
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Identification of climate hazard and climate change adaptation resources
- Contribution by:Bromley, T., Holland, K., Evans, K., Rees, C., Pearson, G., Prouse, L.
- Publish date:08.02.2024
This report identifies resources and methodologies for safeguarding heritage sites against climate change impacts. Highlighting available tools, information gaps, and the need for accessible solutions tailored to diverse stakeholders. It underscores Historic England's critical role in leading resilience efforts by informing, assessing risks, and promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing within the heritage sector.
- Tags: Climate Resilience, Policy and Research
- Published by:Historic England
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Synergistic use of Sentinel-2 and UAV-derived data for plant fractional cover distribution mapping of coastal meadows with digital elevation models
- Contribution by:Joyce, C.B.
- Publish date:19.03.2024
This study uses Sentinel-2 and UAV data to map plant fractional cover in coastal meadows. Combining vegetation indices with digital elevation models improves prediction accuracy, aiding in ecosystem management and conservation
- Tags: Ecology
- Published by:Biogeosciences
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Modelling non-stationary flood frequency in England and Wales using physical covariates
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D and Warren, S
- Publish date:23.01.2024
This research explores how and why to include physical variables as covariates in statistical models of flood frequency. It also develops and illustrates methods for extracting flow estimates from such models so that practitioners can obtain useful results.
- Tags: Hydrology
- Published by:Hydrology Research
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Prioritising climate risks for spatial assessment
- Contribution by:Pearson, G., Bromley, T., Maslen, S.
- Publish date:24.11.2023
This paper provides a better understanding of which risks could benefit from a spatial perspective in CCRA4-IA. Although the impacts of climate change and the effectiveness of adaptation measures are geography dependent, the benefits of a risk assessment vary by risk. This is due to the nature of the risk, dataset availability and/or analytical capability.
- Tags: Climate Resilience, Policy and Research
- Published by:Climate Change Committee