Future Urban Flood Risk Management
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
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ORCID iD |
| Chris Kilsby (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bertsch R
(2017)
Urban Flood Simulation Using Synthetic Storm Drain Networks
in Water
Birkinshaw S
(2021)
Improved hydrological modelling of urban catchments using runoff coefficients
in Journal of Hydrology
Birkinshaw S
(2022)
Evaluating the Effect of the Location and Design of Retention Ponds on Flooding in a Peri-Urban River Catchment
in Land
Glenis V
(2018)
A fully hydrodynamic urban flood modelling system representing buildings, green space and interventions
in Environmental Modelling & Software
Kilsby C
(2019)
Contrasting seasonality of storm rainfall and flood runoff in the UK and some implications for rainfall-runoff methods of flood estimation
in Hydrology Research
Krivtsov V
(2020)
Flood resilience, amenity and biodiversity benefits of an historic urban pond.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
O'Donnell E
(2020)
The blue-green path to urban flood resilience
in Blue-Green Systems
Richardson D
(2018)
A new precipitation and drought climatology based on weather patterns.
in International journal of climatology : a journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
| Description | The project at Newcastle has finished. • An urban hydrology/hydrodynamic model has been developed that is capable of a continuous simulation of water on the surface, in the soil, and in the sub-surface pipe networks and groundwater. This will be extremely valuable in future water flow modelling and hence resilience within the urban environment. • A technique has been developed to produce the effective impervious area in any urban catchment using monthly runoff coefficients. A related finding is that green, pervious areas are often under-estimated using conventional remote sensed land cover maps. This will greatly improve our future understanding of what happens to the water in the urban environment. • A methodology has been demonstrated to systematically search the urban catchment space to link source and impact of flooding which enables a ranking of locations for the most effective intervention in runoff storage at source. This can now be developed further to incorporate runoff capture on intermediate flow paths and thereby improve real world design of flood risk management in cities. |
| Exploitation Route | To be used by partners and practitioners in designing Blue-Green urban flood management systems. The model is now being trialled in teh insurance industry for stress testing of the impact of climate change on pluvial and fluvial flooding in cities. The work pioneered in the project has been shared with practitioners through the Newcastle Learning Action Alliance for Blue Green Cities, which will carry on beyond the project lifetime with leadership from Newcastle City Council, Newcastle University and Northumbrian Water Ltd. The urban flood model which has been developed is being applied in other projects, notably in the NERC Newton SE Asia project Extreme rainfall and its effects on flood risk in Indonesia NE/S003274/1. |
| Sectors | Construction,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Transport |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/tag/floodriskmanagement/ |
| Description | CityCAT urban flood maps are being used in Newcastle and Antwerp for strategic design by multiple stakeholders. CityCAT has been used by Royal Haskoning (consultants) for a flood risk and options assessment project for the Newcastle City Council (Dec 2018) The work has contributed to the Leaning Action Alliance for Blue Green Cities in Newcastle for the duration of the project, culminating in an open meeting in 2019 where stakeholders committed to signing a declaration promoting the use of Blue Green technologies. The CityCAT model approach has been used by Northumbrian water in their handling of water main bursts to assess the extent of flooding. The model has been used in the international insurance industry, in particular for the assessment of the impact of climate change on pluvial flooding as part of the Bank of England PRA stress tests. The CityCAT model has been used in the USA for evaluating the use of Blue Green Infrastructure in New York and other cities - see http://urbansystemslab.com/urbanfloodrisk |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Construction,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Willis Research Network |
| Organisation | Willis Group |
| Department | Willis Research Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Analysis and development of models for extreme rainfall and floods Regular presentations at industry forums on flooding |
| Collaborator Contribution | In addition to financial contributions, Willis provide cases studies and datasets, as well as a platform for discussion and presentation of work to the rest of the insurance industry. |
| Impact | Models for extreme rainfall, spatial dependence of extremes and "memory processes" in extremes. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Blue Green Conference and Declaration at Centre for Life, Newcastle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Achieving Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future Newcastle Dissemination Event 2019 The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience Thursday 7th March 2019, 09.00 - 16.30 Newcastle Centre for Life Over the past six years, academics from leading UK Universities working on the Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience research projects have produced world class research outputs demonstrating the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure, resilience of urban water systems under climate and population change, opportunities to use stormwater as a resource, citizens' interactions and interoperability of Blue-Green systems. In parallel, local partners in Newcastle, including Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, the Environment Agency and Newcastle University, have explored what these approaches mean for the city and developed working relationships which seek to influence a Blue-Green Vision for Newcastle. This led to the signing of the Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration in February 2016. This event showcased progress with implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure in Newcastle and the wider NE, celebrated the achievements of the Declaration signatories, and welcomed new signatories. Blue-Green infrastructure successes and ambitions were presented and the Urban Flood Resilience team disseminated their research outputs. Keynote speakers included: Cllr Nick Kemp (Newcastle City Council) Richard Warneford (Northumbrian Water) Leila Huntington (Environment Agency) James Harris (RTPI) Justin Abbott (Arup) Iain Garfield (Newcastle University) Fola Ogunyoye (Royal HaskoningDHV) Eugene Milne (Newcastle City Council) Ola Holmstrom (Sweco) Lisa Stephenson (Groundwork NE & Cumbria) Gwen Rhodes (Stantec) Colin Thorne (University of Nottingham) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| Description | Presentation at Willis Flood Club |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on flood risk assessment and climate change to an insurance industry forum at Willis Insurance Brokers HQ, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |