Research

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).

This research explores findings from the Q-natural flood management project in Cumbria. Co-developed with the Environment Agency, the project involved monitoring 18 micro-catchments to study the affect of nature-based solutions on the flow of water. This paper demonstrates an approach to applying donor-parameter-shifts obtained from modelling two of the paired micro-catchments to a much larger scale, in order to understand the potential for improved distributed modelling of nature-based solutions in the form of additional tree-planting.

Using resampling approaches adapted to the Flood Estimation Handbook methods, this paper quantifies the sampling uncertainty for single site, pooled (ungauged), enhanced single site (gauged pooling) and across catchment types.

JBA led this rapid evidence review, funded by the Environment Agency, to support the National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England (2020) for England.

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.

JBA led this Environment Agency-funded evidence review, which is accompanied by another report giving recommendations for future research.