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.

  • Modelling the impact of spending on defence maintenance on flood losses

    Modelling the impact of spending on defence maintenance on flood losses

    • Contribution by:Pettit, A., Garrett, J.
    • Publish date:01.05.2021

    This research evaluates the benefits of maintaining flood defences over a 30-year period for several different spending scenarios. This study explored the relationship between inland flood defence maintenance and flood defence failure due to breaching (caused by structural failure). It also estimated the total benefit derived from river flood wall and embankment defences and the associated upkeep costs of these defences.

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  • A semantic approach to enable data integration for the domain of flood risk management

    A semantic approach to enable data integration for the domain of flood risk management

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B., Lamb, R.
    • Publish date:02.03.2021

    Data heterogeneity is a pressing issue for the flood domain. This paper seeks to addresses the issue of data variety by exploring an approach that uses Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing techniques to resolve the heterogeneity arising in data formats, bring together structured and unstructured data and provide a unified data model to query from disparate data sets.

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  • Managing the effects of extreme sub-daily rainfall and flash floods—a practitioner's perspective

    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.

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  • Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing

    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.

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  • Rapid evidence assessment of non-stationarity in sources of UK flooding

    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.

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  • Rethinking data-driven decision support in flood risk management for a big data age

    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.

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  • Property flood resilience – Scottish baseline study

    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.

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  • Can we still predict the future from the past? Implementing non-stationary flood frequency analysis in the UK

    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.

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