Research

This paper reports on new hydrometric data collected from one of eighteen small-scale, accurately monitored micro-catchments in Cumbria, UK, to study the effect in more detail.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.