Hydro-JULES-Next
Lead Research Organisation:
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Department Name: Hydro-climate Risks
Abstract
As recent floods in Australia and Pakistan and prolonged severe drought in the UK, USA, and East Africa show, the water cycle is a key driver of environmental change in the 21st century. The UK's commitment to Net Zero by 2050 and the COP26-inspired Glasgow Breakthrough Goals challenge scientists to quantify the risks and impacts of anthropogenic warming and environmental change on hydrological extremes, and to provide more precise estimates of hydro-meteorological hazards and the availability of water resources worldwide. The Climate Change Committee's Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk has stressed the importance of accurate assessments of current and future flood risk, and stimulated innovation to provide better predictions of floods across all time-scales.
The Hydro-JULES-Next project will provide underpinning science to address these challenges. This project will undertake a comprehensive programme of work aimed at building new modelling infrastructure to understanding floods and water scarcity in the UK and overseas. We will develop innovative approaches to assimilating data into the latest coupled hydrological and atmosphere models, to develop a new understanding of hydrological extremes. We will conduct state-of-the-art analyses of the effects of climate and land cover change on the water cycle in the UK and beyond and we will make our results, and the technology used to produce them, freely available to beneficiaries in universities, public sector research organisations, and the private sector so that they can develop advanced solutions tailored to their own needs.
Working closely with our research and implementation partners in the Environment Agency, Met Office, and Flood Forecasting Centre, among others, we will develop model capability that can deliver solutions to provide next-generation seamless environmental prediction, improve water resources planning and flood guidance statements, and help understand the response of hydrological systems to land cover change associated with the pursuit of net zero carbon emissions.
The Hydro-JULES-Next project will provide underpinning science to address these challenges. This project will undertake a comprehensive programme of work aimed at building new modelling infrastructure to understanding floods and water scarcity in the UK and overseas. We will develop innovative approaches to assimilating data into the latest coupled hydrological and atmosphere models, to develop a new understanding of hydrological extremes. We will conduct state-of-the-art analyses of the effects of climate and land cover change on the water cycle in the UK and beyond and we will make our results, and the technology used to produce them, freely available to beneficiaries in universities, public sector research organisations, and the private sector so that they can develop advanced solutions tailored to their own needs.
Working closely with our research and implementation partners in the Environment Agency, Met Office, and Flood Forecasting Centre, among others, we will develop model capability that can deliver solutions to provide next-generation seamless environmental prediction, improve water resources planning and flood guidance statements, and help understand the response of hydrological systems to land cover change associated with the pursuit of net zero carbon emissions.
Publications
Bianchi M
(2024)
Simulation of national-scale groundwater dynamics in geologically complex aquifer systems: an example from Great Britain
in Hydrological Sciences Journal
Buechel M
(2024)
Hydrometeorological response to afforestation in the UK: findings from a kilometer-scale climate model
in Environmental Research Letters
Buechel M
(2024)
Broadleaf afforestation impacts on terrestrial hydrology insignificant compared to climate change in Great Britain
in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Buechel M
(2023)
Modelling the influence of widespread afforestation on UK hydrology
Cooper E
(2024)
Comparison of Met Office regional model soil moisture with COSMOS-UK field-scale in situ observations
in Atmospheric Science Letters
| Description | Membership of WMO Impact-based Forecasting for Hydrology group |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | This activity is developing World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Guidelines for Impact-based forecasting in Hydrology (IbFH) that would be used for implementing and validating impact-based forecast warnings. WMO publications and guidelines are used by national hydro-meteorological services across the world. These form part of WMO Standing Committee in Hydrology Activity 10 (Support WMO Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction in the provision of assistance to Members in enhancing their service delivery capabilities and enabling effective implementation of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS)), and contributing to the milestones of the WMO Plan of Action for Hydrology 2022-2030 (hydroref.com), in particular Activity B.8.2 and C.5. |
| Description | CDT for Resilient Flood Fututres (FLOOD-CDT) |
| Amount | £6,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 08/2031 |
| Description | STORMS: Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Additions to existing grants. |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2024 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | STORMS: Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks |
| Amount | £361,452 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/Y004035/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | STORMS: Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks |
| Amount | £361,453 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/Y004000/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Uncertainty Quantification for Flood Modelling (UQ4FM) |
| Amount | £1,233,775 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Y000145/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2024 |
| End | 02/2027 |
| Title | Gridded actual groundwater, surface water and tidal water abstraction, discharge and Hands-off Flow datasets for England (1999 to 2014) |
| Description | Gridded actual groundwater, surface water and tidal water abstraction, discharge and Hands-off Flow datasets for England (1999 to 2014) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | THis is the long-awaited fisrt publication of a 1km monthly abstraction dataset for England, published on CEDA in collaboration with Environment Agency experts. |
| URL | https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/18886f95ba84447f997efac96df456ad/ |
| Description | WP2.4_Climate change impacts on the Adige River, Italy |
| Organisation | University of Trento |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Advice on analyses. Draft paper review. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Advice on analyses. Draft paper review. |
| Impact | Poster at EGU 2024. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Title | GitHub repository for training on using JASMIN Object Store |
| Description | The GitHub repository offers sample notebooks and guides for utilizing the JASMIN Object Store. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This GitHub repository is freely available to use, and is platform agnostic and can be downloaded and used through any platform for e.g., Google Colab Notebooks. Anyone can use this repository to train offline or via self-learning. |
| URL | https://github.com/NERC-CEH/object_store_tutorial/ |
| Title | Historic Climate Analogues Forecasts |
| Description | New operational forecasting system implemented in the UK Hydrological Outlook |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Improved streamflow forecasts over winter in particular |
| URL | https://ukho.ceh.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Hydro-PE |
| Description | Python package and tools for calculating potential evapotranspiration |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software allows the research community to implement our updated potential evapotranspiration methodology, which enables calculation of PE that is consistent with MORECS and allows seamless hydrological modelling with historical and future climate data sets |
| Description | AllWP_Flood Hydrology Roadmap STAG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stakeholder and communication workshop (2). Discussed key messages for the Roadmap to key stakeholder groups and the alignment of key initiatives (broadly) under the Roadmap - UKCEH NC programmes listed in here, including HJ2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AllWP_HJ breakout session at annual JULES science meeting. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | HJ breakout session at annual JULES science meeting. HJ developments outlined to small group; REP and webinar advertised to the whole meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AllWP_Regular bi-lateral meeting between MO and UKCEH. Meeting with Stephen Belcher |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaborative work on H-J2 and improved pull-through of science into operational version of JULES. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AllWP_Visiting scientist Christoph Rudiger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Visit to UKCEH as part of larger European visit. Several discussions with UKCEH staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Chris Rudiger visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaborative visit by BoM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Edinburgh Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 3-day science festival in Edinburgh aimed at children. Activities include augmented reality sand box, soil game and food game. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | FZ Juelich Land Modelling Workshop, Cologne |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Land modelling workshop with German Supercomputing Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | HJ Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 4-day course on Modelling Hydrology and Global Change. The event was coordinated and funded largely by Hydro-JULES and involved scientists across work packages to host workshops and deliver keynote talks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://hydro-jules.org/modelling-hydrology-and-global-change-2024 |
| Description | Invited talk at Climate Science in Water Systems: Informing Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change which is Part of CIWEM Climate Emergency Adaption & Resilience series. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wilson Chan was invited to talk at the first of the CIWEM Climate Emergency Adaption & Resilience series of webniars. The first webinar was on latest climate change science, including the likelihood of more extreme hydrological events: "Climate Science in Water Systems: Informing Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change", Wilson presented on "Translating climate science output for hydrological applications" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://www.ciwem.org/events/climate-science-in-water-systems-informing-adaptation-and-resilience-to... |
| Description | Invited talk for Geospatial Engineering and Water Resources Seminar, Newcastle University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Amulya Chevuturi was invited to give a talk on "Multi-model blending of streamflow forecasts: A comprehensive global hydrological prediction system" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited to attend the Modelling Advisory Group workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Amulya Chevuturi participated in the Modelling Advisory Group Hydrological Uncertainty Workshop on Monday 10th February in London. The workshop will focus on hydrological uncertainty with key links to how companies undertake future WINEP/ED work. This discussion will inform future national-scale modelling and analysis efforts for the water resource industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Knowledge sharing workshop with SEPA and Met Office on verification of Surface Water Floooding and rainfall forecasts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop led by UKCEH with operational forecasters from SEPA on verification of operational Surface Water Flooding impact based forecasts. Showcased results supported by Hydro JULES internship and discussed future priorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | LSDA CoP COSMOS-UK field visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | LSDA-CoP COSMOS-UK field visit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | LSDA CoP inaugural meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Inaugural Land Surface Data Assimilation Community of Practice (LSDA CoP) meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://hydro-jules.org/news |
| Description | LSDA CoP meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Next in series of LSDA CoP meetings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Lecture for EURO-FRIEND Seminar Series on Advances in Seasonal Forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | EURO-FRIEND Seminar: Advances in Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting (online, recorded and posted to YouTube) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odb9091cJ0Q&ab_channel=EUROFRIENDWorkshop%26training |
| Description | Miriam Bertola visit under the HydroJules Researcher Exchange Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visit focused on research collaboration on extreme hydrological events with a talk focused on "Record-breaking floods in Europe - are they surprising?" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Model Intercomparison planning meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Planning meeting with members of hydrological modelling community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | NERC Executive visit, Peter Liss and Alison Robinson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Roundtable with visiting NERC executive |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | NERC showcase event Cardiff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 3-day event at Techniquest, Cardiff Bay, aimed at primary school age children.Activities include augmented reality sand box, ARC boat demonstration, food game. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Poster at meeting: Hydrology in the 21st century: Challenges in science, to policy and practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster at meeting: Hydrology in the 21st century: Challenges in science, to policy and practice. Poster title: constructing coherent future water demand scenarios in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Poster at meeting: Hydrology in the 21st century: Challenges in science, to policy and practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster at meeting: Hydrology in the 21st century: Challenges in science, to policy and practice. Poster title: constructing coherent future water demand scenarios in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at National Drought Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about the state of the art in drought research - to a director level meeting at the National Drought Group (Incl minister for water) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-discusses-preparations-for-extreme-weather |
| Description | Presentation at UK Modelling Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Multiple presentations from UKCEH on review of current stochastic methods and future recommendations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation at the European Geosciences Union |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | EGU Presentation "Mapping a Decade of Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting: The UK Hydrological Outlook's Journey" in session HS4.6 "Transforming observations and forecasts for management policy action - the role of data services for the water related sectors" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-16596.html |
| Description | Presentation to Angela McLean (Government Chief Scientific Officer) and the Government Office for Science (GOScience) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at in person meeting with GOScience on hydrological forecasting services and research through National Capability Funding programmes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to Colin MacKechnie (Head of Research Development & Impact) at the Government Office for Science (GOScience) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on "Drought Preparedness in the UK: From Next Season to the Next Century" after presentation given by Amulya Chevuturi |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to the British Expertise International Water Resilience Group on UKCEH work on UK and International drought resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk presented UKCEH services and research in drought resilience including UK and international work on: water situation monitoring, seasonal hydrological forecasting, climate change projections of low flows, long term trend analysis, drought impact forecasting, and international drought reporting standards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to the CEO of UKWIR (Steve Kaye) on water situation monitoring and forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at in person meeting with UKWIR on hydrological forecasting services and research through National Capability Funding programmes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Roundtable with Daniel Zeichner MP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Briefing to visiting MP on research undertaken and its relevance to parliamentary debates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Roundtable with US Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | KE roundtable with US counterpart institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Scottish Flood Forecasting Service (SFFS) - Workshop on assessment of operational Surface Water Flooding impact forecasts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop led by UKCEH with operational forecasters from SEPA on verification of operational Surface Water Flooding impact based forecasts. Showcased results supported by Hydro JULES internship and discussed future priorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting Workshop at UKCEH |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop held at UKCEH to update seasonal forecasting user community on advances in the science, and hear perspectives on how forecasts are and can be used. Future developments were discussed and prioritised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk at BHS Symposium, 23-24 Sep 2024 at the University at Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk: Hydrological modelling and data in the Hydro-JULES project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Virtual Raingauge Pilot Project - Partner Workshp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The River Severn Partnership is part of an Advanced Wireless Innovation Region that is supported by Vodafone. A workshop was held to share how Vodafone will be making rainfall estimations from microwave links available for various partners to use, e.g. to provide better observations and improve nowcasts/forecasts. As a result, links have been made to the FDRI programme and a Vodafone supported Hydro JULES 2025 summer internship created. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WP1.1_Dialogue with Met Office around JULES developments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Various meetings and discussions with Met Office staff to discuss and plan development of JULES, particularly in the context of Regional Environmental Prediction modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP1.3_Engagement with CEDA JASMIN to participate in JASMIN user seminar series and site visit. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Various talks give by UKCEH research scientist demonstrating the use of JASMIN high performance computing system in their research. In depth discussions with CEDA JASMIN experts to build strong connections between two institutes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWd49mqX-qQ |
| Description | WP1.3_Poster at NERC Digital Gathering: How chunky would you like your data? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at NERC Digital Gathering in Cambridge at BAS, Summer 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP1.3_Talk at AGU Fall Meeting at San Francisco, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk titled "Navigating the challenges of Object Store: Experiments in efficient handling of large datasets" given by Amulya Chevuturi |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1381154 |
| Description | WP1.3_Talk at JASMIN User Conference at Didcot, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk titled "JASMIN Object Storage: Optimising Performance for Climate Research" given by Matt Brown and Amulya Chevuturi. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ8qEXQAri0 |
| Description | WP2.2_Engagement with Met Office Radar Development Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The NCAS X-band radar team are regularly engaging with Tim Darlington, Team Leader Radar Research and Development about NCAS X-band research and Met Office plans. This is to share knowledge and facilitate future exchange of radar algorithms and closer working between academia and the Met Office. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WP2.2_Introduction to Atmospheric Radar - Training Course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Introduction to Atmospheric Radar course is primarily targeted at PhD students and early career researchers who have limited experience in this field. The course will cover radar fundamentals, dual-polarisation weather radars, cloud radars, and wind profiling radars. The aim of this course is to provide the basic knowledge and skills required for researchers to use radar-derived atmospheric products within their work. Examples and material from Hydro-JULES research will be used in the course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://ncas.ac.uk/study-with-us/introduction-to-atmospheric-radar/ |
| Description | WP2.3_ Presentation at EA evapotranspiration workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on evapotranspiration with a focus on trees, aimed modellers of recharge, ground water and riverflow. EA have written a report summarising the workshop, and have come up with some short- and long-term plans to improve groundwater recharge modelling including interception, which will enable better modelling of afforestation and other NbS effects on water resources in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP3.1_ K-Scale UK Science Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended workshop and Simon gave a lightning talk. Discussions about potential future work with high-resolution models, and HJ in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP3.1_Discussion with BoM Australia about JULES |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of possible collaboration to look at use of JULES to represent ponding following rainfall. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP3.2_EGU Engagement/Catch-ups |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Discussed HJ land and inundation DA plans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP3.2_JEDI land Da conversation with relevant people at Met Office |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Sarah Dance, Elizabeth Cooper, Cristina Charlton-Perez and Samantha Pullen to discuss common goals of land surface DA and possible adoption (for us) of the JEDO framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP3.2_Zoom meeting with ECMWF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Catch up zoom meeting to share plans for land DA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP5.2_Oral and Poster presentations at HEPEX workshop "Forecasting across spatial scales and time horizons" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented Poster presentation "making better forecasts" that detailed technical advances in forecasting as a result of HydroJULES research. Presented oral presentation "delivering better forecasts" that detailed the applications of HydroJULES technical developments in operational services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://hepex.org.au/hepex-workshop-2023-forecasting-across-spatial-scales-and-time-horizons/ |
| Description | WP5.3_ Advances in Flood Modelling and Forecasting Conference, 1-2 February 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKCEH staff invited to attend this specialist workshop on 2-d hydrodynamic simulators. Organised under the EPSRC SEAMLESS-WAVE "SoftwarE infrAstructure for Multi-purpose fLood modElling at variouS scaleS" based on "WAVElets" fellowship. Discussions on links between hydrology and hydraulics, optimum utilisation of GPUs/compute power and uncertainty. Many links to Hydro-JULES and related projects discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.seamlesswave.com/2024_Feb_Event.html |
| Description | WP5.3_ Surface water flood forecasting and real-time communication symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Symposium to bring together the surface water flood forecasting community to identify priorities and new opportunities. Dr Steven Cole (UKCEH) invited as a expert in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surface-water-flood-forecasting-and-real-time-communication-symposium... |
| Description | WP5.3_Keynote talk by Steven Cole at 7th Conference on Modelling Hydrology, Climate and Land Surface Processes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK are one of the leaders in developing Impact-based Forecasting (IbF). UKCEH, as part of the UK Natural Hazards Partnership, have had a key role in creating new IbF services in the UK and elsewhere. Norway are embarking on a similar journey and have a major project, FlomRisk, led by NVE, the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate. Dr Steven Cole (UKCEH) was invited to give a keynote presentation on "Probabilistic impact-based approaches for flood forecasting and prediction" to the 7th Conference on Modelling Hydrology, Climate and Land Surface Processes, "Modelling, forecasting, communicating, and handling weather-induced natural hazards" in Lillehammer, 19 - 21 September 2023. This was a timely exchange between hydrologists, meteorologists, service providers, academics, local government and consultants as Norway had suffered major flooding and landslides during the summer storm "Hans". It is expected that the exchange between UK and Norway will continue as the FlomRisk project, and other initiatives, continue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.hydrologiraadet.no/7th-conference-on-modelling-hydrology-climate-and-land-surface-proces... |
| Description | WP5_ Flood Nonstationarity and Prediction Academic and practitioner perspectives on recent developments and unresolved challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Flood Nonstationarity and Prediction worskhop at University of Oxford, 20 July 2023 "Academic and practitioner perspectives on recent developments and unresolved challenges". Brought together a wide range of academics and practitioners and fostered discussion between user needs and art of the possible. Hydro-JULES was promoted and many discussions and opportunities for linking across research initiiative and stakeholders. The Hydro JULES PI and several of the team attended. Adam Griffin gave a presentation on "Climate Change Allowances and all the ways to interpret them" covering plans under HJ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP5_Flood Hydrology Roadmap - Model Benchmarking workshop - UK academic researchers involved in the development of flood hydrology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was part of the Environment Agency's Flood Hydrology Improvements Programme and is being undertaken in collaboration with the UK's devolved nations to develop a project that intends to deliver a benchmarking service to aid us in the selection of best practicable flood hydrology methods / models for operational practice in the UK. This was a first workshop at the start of a 3 year programme with more engagement expected and overlap with Hydro-JULES aims. Many of the HydroJULES team attended an contributed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://engageenvironmentagency.uk.engagementhq.com/m4-benchmarking |
| Description | WP6 _ Meeting with the Environment Agency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussing HJ and NC with the intention of working with them in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP6.5_ Hosted Wouter Knoben on a research visit, including organisation of a Hydro-JULES seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Wouter Knoben from the University of Calgary for a week at UKCEH Wallingford. This included organisation of a Hydro-JULES seminar where Wouter presented his research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WP6.5_Benchmarking and intercomparison workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We invited members of the hydrological community to attend a workshop about benchmarking and intercomparison of hydrological models. This involved a series of invited talks, lightning talks, and discussion sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WP6_ Engagement with EA re. HJ and FHRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the HJ Project Team meeting from Anita Asadullah and Sally Brown - EA to explain progress to FHRM and how HJ may relate/collaborate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WP6_Engagement with EA re FHRP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the HJ Project Team meeting from Anita Asadullah- EA to explain progress to FHRM and how HJ may relate/collaborate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | WP6_Engagement with Met Office re. CSRA4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the HJ Project Team meeting from Richard Betts- MO to explain the process for the production of CSRA 4 and how HJ may relate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP6_Frontiers in Land surface & Hydrological prediction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hydro-JULES webinar live broadcast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://hydro-jules.org/ |
| Description | WP6_HJ Education, Exploring collaboration and co-design with the university sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion to talk about co-developing matrial to be used in and by HEI. Smaller trial group first to get feeling of what would be helpful and guage what thye would like from HJ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP6_Internship Programme 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 2 students attended UKCEH site for 6 weeks to work on HJ related topics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WP6_LTSM2 meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PIs and other representatives from all the LTSM2 projects met to introduce their projects and identify potential areas for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop at Anglian Water |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Two day workshop at Anglian Water, co-designing research activities within the Climate+ Co-Centre (also adjacent programmes e.g. CANARI, HydroJULES). Included site visits to Anglian Water facilities (treatment works) and a day long workshop at Grafham Water Reservoir, sharing current research, industry research needs and potential collaboration through the Co-Centre Spoke Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Workshop at Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Two day workshop at DCWW, co-designing research activities within CANARI, HYdroJULES and the Climate+ Co-Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |