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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Improving PMP and PMF estimation for UK reservoir safety
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D., Wood, L., Shelton, K., Dale, M., Hammond, A.
- Publish date:20.03.2025
It describes the first phase of a project that aims to assess the suitability of methods for estimating probable maximum precipitation (PMP and probable maximum flood (PMF) - and develop new methods to improve the safety of the highest risk reservoirs. Phase 1 reviews options for alternative approaches to estimating PMP and PMF and recommends a way forward for future research developments.
- Tags: Hydrology Reservoirs
- Published by:Environment Agency
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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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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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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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Towards new design rainfall profiles for the United Kingdom
- Contribution by:Dale, M., Faulkner, D.
- Publish date:25.10.2023
JBA authors contributed to this work led by Newcastle University. The research details Important findings about rainfall profiles used for design of drainage infrastructure, flood defences and dams.
- Tags: Hydrology
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management
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How do climate change pathway assumptions effect economic viability and prioritisation of flood projects?
- Contribution by:Hankin, B., Sampson, T.
- Publish date:11.09.2023
This paper explores the influence of how climate change pathway assumptions effect the economic appraisal and prioritisation of flood projects. We focus on flood hydrology assumptions and use anonymised case studies to demonstrate the possible effects. The paper shows how hydrology has a strong influence on economic appraisal with climate change.
- Tags: Climate Resilience, Policy and Research Hydrology
- Published by:Irish National Hydrology Conference 2023: Proceedings
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A region of influence approach for attributing fluvial climate change allowances
- Contribution by:Hammond, A.
- Publish date:04.01.2023
A proof-of-concept study that enables practitioners to derive climate change allowances for the full distribution of floods (as opposed to single return periods).
- Tags: Hydrology
- Published by:Hydrological Sciences Journal
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Deciding on fitness-for-purpose-of models and of natural flood management
- Contribution by:Hankin, B.
- Publish date:31.10.2022
This article has taken a distributed modelling approach to examine the potential for hillslope storage bunds as a natural flood management (NFM) strategy to mitigate the effects of downstream flooding if deployed extensively in the 209 km² River Kent catchment in Cumbria (UK).
- Tags: Catchment Management and Natural Flood Management Hydrology
- Published by:Hydrological Processes
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