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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Managing the effects of extreme sub-daily rainfall and flash floods—a practitioner's perspective
- Contribution by:Dale, M.
- Publish date:01.03.2021
This paper describes how UK flood risk guidance incorporates allowances for climate change and how recent research using convection-permitting climate models is helping to inform this guidance.
- Tags: Climate Resilience, Policy and Research Flood Resilience
- Published by:The Royal Society Publishing, Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society A
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Development of interim national guidance on non-stationary fluvial flood frequency estimation: science report and practitioner guidance
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D., Warren, S., Shelton, K.
- Publish date:26.02.2021
Through the development of practitioner guidance and software, as well as national-scale analysis of trends and non-stationarity, this JBA-led guidance highlights new tools and techniques to help detect and take account of non-stationarity in flood frequency estimation for flood scheme appraisal.
- Tags: Climate Resilience, Policy and Research Hydrology
- Published by:Environment Agency
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Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing
- Contribution by:Shelton, K.L., Rabb, B., Lamb, R., Hunter, N.
- Publish date:27.01.2021
This paper describes the new surface water flood forecasting products that were created as part of the co-led JBA and University of Leeds iCASP project. The paper also details how the products were tested in a realistic scenario in a workshop attended by a variety of stakeholders including Met Office and Environment Agency personnel, local councils, water companies and flood wardens.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management
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Rapid evidence assessment of non-stationarity in sources of UK flooding
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D., Luxford, F.
- Publish date:01.11.2020
JBA led this Environment Agency-funded evidence review, which is accompanied by another report giving recommendations for future research.
- Tags: Flood Resilience Hydrology
- Published by:Environment Agency
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Rethinking data-driven decision support in flood risk management for a big data age
- Contribution by:Lamb, R., Hankin, B.
- Publish date:11.08.2020
This paper examines the potential of a data-driven approach to support decision-making in flood risk management, with the goal of investigating a suitable software architecture. The key contribution is a cloud-based data hypercube that achieves the desired level of integration of highly complex data.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management
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Property flood resilience – Scottish baseline study
- Contribution by:Pettit, A.
- Publish date:26.06.2020
This study provides a baseline best estimate of the potential for PFR in Scotland and current uptake.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:ClimateXChange
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Reservoir flood estimation: the way ahead
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D., Benn, J.
- Publish date:04.12.2019
This paper calls for a comprehensive update to hydrological procedures used for the design and assessment of dam spillways and led to a national research project which was completed in 2022.
- Tags: Asset Management Hydrology
- Published by:Dams and Reservoirs
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Can we still predict the future from the past? Implementing non-stationary flood frequency analysis in the UK
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D., Warren, S.
- Publish date:03.12.2019
This paper calls for the adoption of a new approach to flood frequency analysis when planning and designing defences. The publication of this guidance led to a national-scale project, completed in 2020.
- Tags: Flood Resilience Hydrology
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management
