Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding (SINATRA)
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
Project SINATRA responds to the NERC call for research on flooding from intense rainfall (FFIR) with a programme of focused research designed to advance general scientific understanding of the processes determining the probability, incidence, and impacts of FFIR.
Such extreme rainfall events may only last for a few hours at most, but can generate terrifying and destructive floods. Their impact can be affected by a wide range factors (or processes) such as the location and intensity of the rainfall, the shape and steepness of the catchment it falls on, how much sediment is moved by the water and the vulnerability of the communities in the flood's path. Furthermore, FFIR are by their nature rapid, making it very difficult for researchers to 'capture' measurements during events. The complexity, speed and lack of field measurements on FFIR make it difficult to create computer models to predict flooding and often we are uncertain as to their accuracy.
To address these issues, NERC launched the FFIR research programme. It aims to reduce the risks from surface water and flash floods by improving our identification and prediction of the meteorological (weather), hydrological (flooding) and hydro-morphological (sediment and debris moved by floods) processes that lead to FFIR. A major requirement of the programme is identifying how particular catchments may be vulnerable to FFIR, due to factors such as catchment area, shape, geology and soil type as well as land-use. Additionally, the catchments most susceptible to FFIR are often small and ungauged.
Project SINATRA will address these issues in three stages: Firstly increasing our understanding of what factors cause FFIR and gathering new, high resolution measurements of FFIR; Secondly using this new understanding and data to improve models of FFIR so we can predict where they may happen - nationwide and; Third to use these new findings and predictions to provide the Environment Agency and over professionals with information and software they can use to manage FFIR, reducing their damage and impact to communities.
In more detail, we will:
1. Enhance scientific understanding of the processes controlling FFIR, by-
(a) assembling an archive of past FFIR events in Britain and their impacts, as a prerequisite for improving our ability to predict future occurrences of FFIR.
(b) making real time observations of flooding during flood events as well as post-event surveys and historical event reconstruction, using fieldwork and crowd-sourcing methods.
(c) characterising the physical drivers for UK summer flooding events by identifying the large-scale atmospheric conditions associated with FFIR events, and linking them to catchment type.
2. Develop improved computer modelling capability to predict FFIR processes, by-
(a) employing an integrated catchment/urban scale modelling approach to FFIR at high spatial and temporal scales, modelling rapid catchment response to flash floods and their impacts in urban areas.
(b) scaling up to larger catchments by improving the representation of fast riverine and surface water flooding and hydromorphic change (including debris flow) in regional scale models of FFIR.
(c) improving the representation of FFIR in the JULES land surface model by integrating river routing and fast runoff processes, and performing assimilation of soil moisture and river discharge into the model run.
3. Translate these improvements in science into practical tools to inform the public more effectively, by-
(a) developing tools to enable prediction of future FFIR impacts to support the Flood Forecasting Centre in issuing new 'impacts-based' warnings about their occurrence.
(b) developing a FFIR analysis tool to assess risks associated with rare events in complex situations involving incomplete knowledge, analogous to those developed for safety assessment in radioactive waste management.
In so doing SINATRA will achieve NERC's science goals for the FFIR programme.
Such extreme rainfall events may only last for a few hours at most, but can generate terrifying and destructive floods. Their impact can be affected by a wide range factors (or processes) such as the location and intensity of the rainfall, the shape and steepness of the catchment it falls on, how much sediment is moved by the water and the vulnerability of the communities in the flood's path. Furthermore, FFIR are by their nature rapid, making it very difficult for researchers to 'capture' measurements during events. The complexity, speed and lack of field measurements on FFIR make it difficult to create computer models to predict flooding and often we are uncertain as to their accuracy.
To address these issues, NERC launched the FFIR research programme. It aims to reduce the risks from surface water and flash floods by improving our identification and prediction of the meteorological (weather), hydrological (flooding) and hydro-morphological (sediment and debris moved by floods) processes that lead to FFIR. A major requirement of the programme is identifying how particular catchments may be vulnerable to FFIR, due to factors such as catchment area, shape, geology and soil type as well as land-use. Additionally, the catchments most susceptible to FFIR are often small and ungauged.
Project SINATRA will address these issues in three stages: Firstly increasing our understanding of what factors cause FFIR and gathering new, high resolution measurements of FFIR; Secondly using this new understanding and data to improve models of FFIR so we can predict where they may happen - nationwide and; Third to use these new findings and predictions to provide the Environment Agency and over professionals with information and software they can use to manage FFIR, reducing their damage and impact to communities.
In more detail, we will:
1. Enhance scientific understanding of the processes controlling FFIR, by-
(a) assembling an archive of past FFIR events in Britain and their impacts, as a prerequisite for improving our ability to predict future occurrences of FFIR.
(b) making real time observations of flooding during flood events as well as post-event surveys and historical event reconstruction, using fieldwork and crowd-sourcing methods.
(c) characterising the physical drivers for UK summer flooding events by identifying the large-scale atmospheric conditions associated with FFIR events, and linking them to catchment type.
2. Develop improved computer modelling capability to predict FFIR processes, by-
(a) employing an integrated catchment/urban scale modelling approach to FFIR at high spatial and temporal scales, modelling rapid catchment response to flash floods and their impacts in urban areas.
(b) scaling up to larger catchments by improving the representation of fast riverine and surface water flooding and hydromorphic change (including debris flow) in regional scale models of FFIR.
(c) improving the representation of FFIR in the JULES land surface model by integrating river routing and fast runoff processes, and performing assimilation of soil moisture and river discharge into the model run.
3. Translate these improvements in science into practical tools to inform the public more effectively, by-
(a) developing tools to enable prediction of future FFIR impacts to support the Flood Forecasting Centre in issuing new 'impacts-based' warnings about their occurrence.
(b) developing a FFIR analysis tool to assess risks associated with rare events in complex situations involving incomplete knowledge, analogous to those developed for safety assessment in radioactive waste management.
In so doing SINATRA will achieve NERC's science goals for the FFIR programme.
Planned Impact
SINATRA will deliver a number of important benefits for our immediate UK project partners and for the wider public, who will ultimately be served by more effective flood forecasting and management systems, both in the UK and beyond.
SINATRA will help the Met Office, the Environment Agency, and their joint Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC) meet the demands of the Pitt Review (2008: vii) for a "a step change in the quality of flood warnings" and in their capacity to forecast groundwater, surface water and other kinds of flooding from intense rainfall (FFIR).
Beyond the UK, SINATRA's findings will also be of benefit to forecasters dealing with similar challenges elsewhere, including the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and Dutch Rijkswaterstaat, the executive water management organisation of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, who have all provided letters of support outlining their interest in the project.
By improving the basis for assessing impacts, SINATRA will also make important contributions to fulfilling the strategic aims of the Cabinet Office's National Hazards Partnership and to meeting the demands made by the expressed by the Met Office Public Weather Service Customer Group, on behalf of the civil contingencies community, for more proportionate and meaningful warnings
At the local and regional scale, SINATRA will also improve the evidence-base on catchment susceptibility factors needed by Local Authorities to fulfil their new duties under the 2010 Flood and Water Management Act to be the lead agencies responsible for the management of flood risk from surface runoff, groundwater, and small (so-called "ordinary") watercourses. The database of FFIR events and impacts, as well as the analysis of extreme value statistics and of catchment susceptibility factors, will also help critical infrastructure providers, the insurance industry and others across the private sector to appreciate their exposure to FFIR.
SINATRA will help the Met Office, the Environment Agency, and their joint Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC) meet the demands of the Pitt Review (2008: vii) for a "a step change in the quality of flood warnings" and in their capacity to forecast groundwater, surface water and other kinds of flooding from intense rainfall (FFIR).
Beyond the UK, SINATRA's findings will also be of benefit to forecasters dealing with similar challenges elsewhere, including the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) and Dutch Rijkswaterstaat, the executive water management organisation of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, who have all provided letters of support outlining their interest in the project.
By improving the basis for assessing impacts, SINATRA will also make important contributions to fulfilling the strategic aims of the Cabinet Office's National Hazards Partnership and to meeting the demands made by the expressed by the Met Office Public Weather Service Customer Group, on behalf of the civil contingencies community, for more proportionate and meaningful warnings
At the local and regional scale, SINATRA will also improve the evidence-base on catchment susceptibility factors needed by Local Authorities to fulfil their new duties under the 2010 Flood and Water Management Act to be the lead agencies responsible for the management of flood risk from surface runoff, groundwater, and small (so-called "ordinary") watercourses. The database of FFIR events and impacts, as well as the analysis of extreme value statistics and of catchment susceptibility factors, will also help critical infrastructure providers, the insurance industry and others across the private sector to appreciate their exposure to FFIR.
Publications
Alexander L
(2019)
On the use of indices to study extreme precipitation on sub-daily and daily timescales
in Environmental Research Letters
Allan R
(2020)
Atmospheric precursors for intense summer rainfall over the United Kingdom
in International Journal of Climatology
Archer D
(2021)
A historical flash flood chronology for Britain
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
Archer D
(2019)
Historical flash floods in England: New regional chronologies and database
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
Archer D
(2015)
Characterising flash flood response to intense rainfall and impacts using historical information and gauged data in Britain
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
Beven K
(2019)
Developing observational methods to drive future hydrological science: Can we make a start as a community?
in Hydrological Processes
Blenkinsop S
(2017)
Quality-control of an hourly rainfall dataset and climatology of extremes for the UK.
in International journal of climatology : a journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Blunden J
(2021)
State of the Climate in 2020
in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
| Description | The goal of SINATRA is to advance scientific understanding of the processes determining the probability, incidence, and impacts of flooding from intense rainfall (FFIR). There is evidence that historical data can improve the understanding of current flash flood occurrence in given areas. Therefore we are constructing records of FFIR events and historical flash flood chronologies. To date we have prepared historical flash flood chronologies for NE England, NW England, and SW England. Furthermore, an approach is being developed to combine rain gauge data and radar data to better quantify sub-daily rainfall data nationally. Equipment has been installed to generate new sources of data, including fixed time-lapse cameras to provide non-invasive, remote monitoring during FFIR events. Real-time monitoring and geomorphological assessments of floodplain response to a previous FFIR event was undertaken. The event posed a considerable risk to the infrastructure of the downstream community (Hepple, Northumberland) and work conducted by the SINATRA team is providing evidence for consultation between the landowner and regulatory authorities. New data has also been gathered from a set of radar images of the Severn/Avon catchment between 2006-8. These have been processed to extract surface soil moisture information. This will feed into model developments that lead to a more realistic representation of surface water, river flow and soil moisture. Work has quantified and characterised the physical drivers for summer flooding events in the UK through identification of atmospheric conditions preceding FFIR impacts. Results suggest that Atmospheric Rivers (large-scale transfers of moisture in the atmosphere) have a very weak link with summer flash floods. Analysis of intense hourly summer rainfall has however indicated a mechanism for increased intensities in a warming atmosphere and therefore greater potential for flash floods in the future which is now being written up as a journal paper. SINATRA is utilising a set of complementary cutting-edge modelling tools to better capture catchment FFIR processes and combine this with urban drainage models to simulate FFIR impacts in urban areas. High-performance computing has been further extended and initial flood model developments have been undertaken including making flood simulations more efficient. New governing equations have been derived to mathematically describe flood hydrodynamics over flat to very steep slopes, and written into the CUDA-based HiPIMS; HiPIMS can now accurately simulate rainfall-runoff and flooding processes in mountainous areas or steep catchments; this is commonly beyond the capacity of shallow water equations based hydrodynamic models where mild slope is assumed. The updated HiPIMS has implemented for calculation on multiple GPUs and is being tested to reproduce the flood events caused by Storm Desmond in the whole Eden Catchment including Carlisle, including sensitivity tests against different model parameters and rainfall inputs. A new flood forecasting system combining HiPIMS and the numerical weather prediction (NWP) from the UK Met Office has been developed and tested against the flood events caused by Storm Desmond in the whole Eden Catchment including Carlisle. The hydro-morphology component of HiPIMS has been further developed and applied to the flood event in Glenriding in December 2015. Simulation results suggest that the sediment transport had amplified the hazard risk of the flood event. The HiPIMS software has been further developed to improve the efficiency and stability for simulating rainfall induced overland flow. One of our partners, CH2M, has developed and shared a programme of work; progresses against CH2M's worktask to undertake trial modelling of real-time urban flood risk maps include i. Agreed with the FFC a set of urban locations in the UK to trial (data and flood susceptibility considerations will be taken into account); preliminary cities / urban areas for analysis / mapping include London, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Hull, Cardiff or Swansea, Newcastle, Manchester, Brighton & Hove, Bradford, Conwy & Llandudno ii. Developing flood susceptibility maps for these locations using CH2M specialist flood modelling software including locations of key critical infrastructure iii. Liaison with FFC staff such that the FFC can provide to CH2M historic rainfall forecast data from the First Guess early warning system for the cities modelled for known surface water flooding events for verification purposes. Also liaison with other FFIR consortium partners to encourage other comparisons SINATRA is also advancing understanding of the underlying drivers of FFIR impacts, in terms of vulnerability and exposure, and translating that knowledge into practical tools. It is developing a knowledge system for FFIR, which will bring together data and knowledge about these events. Data sets on the incidence, location and timing of past FFIR events produced by the project have been already been incorporated into the FFIR database and provide the capability to share data on FFIR events. |
| Exploitation Route | SINATRA is working very closely with the Met Office's Environmental Prediction team and the Natural Hazards Partnership, to ensure synergy with the science produced to maximise impact. The project team have also been routinely interacting with the Environment Agency, the Flood Forecasting Centre, the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service, the Health and Safety Lab and industry partners JBA and CH2M HILL. SINATRA is also strengthening links with DEFRA with a postdoc secondment in place. Several team members have also been appointed to the Joint DEFRA/EA FCERM Theme Advisory Groups. DEFRA and short term Met Office secondments will continue along with other partner and end user regular meetings. The SINATRA team acted as flood experts during the winter flooding in 2015/16, providing advice to government and working with the Natural Hazards Partnership. The team also provided significant scientific opinions in the media in response to the flooding, including many media interviews and post-flood discussion on social media. It is envisaged that opportunities for such interaction will continue to be seized. Engagement on flood incidents in the North-East has been established with the Environment Agency, Northumberland County Council, Newcastle City Council, and Northumberland Communities Flood Partnership (NCFP). SINATRA will also now be supported by the NERC Impact Accelerator led by Dr Jo Clark at the University of Reading. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Environment |
| URL | http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/flooding/ |
| Description | As the key findings indicate, there is substantial activity taking place to provide mechanisms for the use of findings in relevant sectors. SINATRA has developed links with the Met Office's Environmental Prediction team, the Natural Hazards Partnership, DEFRA, the Environment Agency, Flood Forecasting Centre, Scottish Flood Forecasting Service, Health and Safety Lab, and industry partners JBA and CH2M-HILL. Initial discussions with the Met Office have explored the possibility of developing a real-time surface flood forecasting system by integrating Hi-PIMS modelling with numerical weather forecasting outputs which would provide increased capacity to protect lives and property from flooding from intense rainfall, providing economic and social benefits. Ongoing knowledge exchange with the flood forecasting centre and the environment agency has led to the development of a web tool with which the public can interrogate project results, and to further development of new guidance for rainfall alert thresholds. Development of a national gridded hourly precipitation dataset has taken place and is now being handed to CEH to be hosted alongside their daily GEAR dataset. Quality control procedures have been developed, coded and handed to CEH so they can update the dataset on an annual basis. Further knowledge exchange will take place to return the QA'd data back to the EA, SEPA and the Met Office along with explanation of the procedures undertaken. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Environment |
| Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
| Description | Academic peer review group member for LWEC Climate Change Impacts report card for Water and Biodiversity, 2012-2013 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Citation in CIWEM UDG Rainfall Guide |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Improved guidance for sewer design in context of changes in intense rainfall under climate change. This guide is used by urban drainage practitioners and engineers. |
| Description | Director of the NERC One Planet Doctoral Training Programme |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | ONE Planet DTP delivering a transdisclipinary training environment to train future leaders in environmental science and application connected to climate change. |
| Description | External Examiner for MSc in Water Science Policy and Management, Oxford University |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange programme with UK Flood Forecast Centre and the Environment Agency |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | NERC E4 DTP External Advisory Panel, Edinburgh University - Hayley Fowler |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | NERC PRC Panel B Chair |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Patterdale/Glenridding meeting discussing support of local flood risk initiatives |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Prof Fowler Member of BSI B/505/21/11 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | cco-chair of net zero task force in Newcastle |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Released climate change net zero action plan in September 2020. Newcastle named a global 'climate leader' by the CDP in Nov 2020. The city is one of only four places in the UK to receive the top "A" grade from international climate research provider CDP, and one of only 88 globally. CDP scores cities across four consecutive levels which represent the steps cities move through as they progress towards environmental stewardship. The levels are: Disclosure, Awareness, Management and Leadership. Over 830 cities disclosed their climate data through CDP in 2020 and in order to score an A rating a city must have a city-wide emissions inventory, have set an emissions reduction target, published a climate action plan and have completed a climate adaptation plan to demonstrate how it will tackle climate hazards now and in the future. |
| URL | https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/our-city/climate-change-newcastle/net-zero-newcastle-2030-action-plan |
| Description | Climate Services-NOW |
| Amount | £5,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Data Assimilation for the REsilient City (DARE) |
| Amount | £1,706,722 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P002331/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | ERC Consolidator's Award |
| Amount | € 1,990,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 05/2014 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | FUTURE-DRAINAGE: Ensemble climate change rainfall estimates for sustainable drainage |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S017348/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | Faculty Impact Fund |
| Amount | £4,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | GCRF Living Deltas Hub |
| Amount | £15,287,248 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S008926/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 05/2024 |
| Description | NERC Environmental Risks to Infrastructure Programme |
| Amount | £161,390 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/N012852/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 09/2017 |
| Description | NERC FFIR Integration fund - Hydodynamic Modelling |
| Amount | £21,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 04/2016 |
| Description | NERC FFIR Integration fund - Wansbeck Integration - Additional Instrumentation & Workshop |
| Amount | £15,477 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | NERC FFIR KE scheme |
| Amount | £35,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 06/2016 |
| Description | NERC GCRF Resilience Building foundation-building award |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | NERC PhD studentship |
| Amount | £92,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/L501748/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2014 |
| End | 09/2017 |
| Description | NSFGEO-NERC: HUrricane Risk Amplification and Changing North Atlantic Natural disasters (Huracan) |
| Amount | £2,366,159 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/W009587/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2027 |
| Description | ONE Planet NERC Doctoral Training Programme |
| Amount | £6,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | PYRAMID: Platform for dYnamic, hyper-resolution, near-real time flood Risk AssessMent Integrating repurposed and novel Data sources |
| Amount | £792,200 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/V00378X/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | PhD - Dream Doctoral Training Centre |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Production of a gridded hourly rainfall dataset for the UK |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2015 |
| End | 12/2015 |
| Description | Rainfall Intensity for Sewer Design |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 15/CL/10/16-1 |
| Organisation | UK Water Industry Research Ltd |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2014 |
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| Description | Research Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe) |
| Amount | £10,568,485 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/Y024257/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 03/2027 |
| Description | Tyne Rivers Trust |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Tyne Rivers Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Water-WISER: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water and Waste Infrastructure Systems Engineered for Resilience |
| Amount | £1,421,813 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S022066/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | [Viet Nam] Valuing the benefits of blue/green infrastructure for flood resilience, natural capital and urban development in Viet Nam |
| Amount | £194,001 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S00288X/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Title | Data on frequency-wavenumber spectra of water waves from videos of the river surface: River Sheaf, UK, Feb-Jun 2019 |
| Description | This data set contains sequences of orthorectified images of the free surface of the River Sheaf, Sheffield, United Kingdom (Latitude: 53.373056$^\circ$ Longitude: -1.463913$^\circ$ (WGS 84)), recorded between February and June 2019, as well as their 3D space-time Fourier power spectrum, and gauging survey data of the stage and flow discharge. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3670647 |
| Title | Data on frequency-wavenumber spectra of water waves from videos of the river surface: River Sheaf, UK, Feb-Jun 2019 |
| Description | This data set contains sequences of orthorectified images of the free surface of the River Sheaf, Sheffield, United Kingdom (Latitude: 53.373056$^\circ$ Longitude: -1.463913$^\circ$ (WGS 84)), recorded between February and June 2019, as well as their 3D space-time Fourier power spectrum, and gauging survey data of the stage and flow discharge. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3670646 |
| Title | Data on the harmonization of image velocimetry techniques, from six different countries |
| Description | Here, we present a range of datasets that have been compiled from across six countries in order to facilitate image velocimetry inter-comparison studies. These data have been independently produced for the primarily purposes of: (i) enhancing our understanding of open-channel flows in diverse flow regimes; and (ii) testing specific image velocimetry techniques. These datasets have been acquired across a range of hydro-geomorphic settings, using a diverse range of cameras, encoding software, controller units, and with river velocity measurements generated as a result of differing image pre-processing and image processing software. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Flood Chronology Database |
| Description | Online searchable database detailing historical flood events in England (~1700-2015). The database was primarily compiled from local newspaper reports. The aim of the database is to inform communities and flood practitioners of flood risk and place recent events in historical context. There are no known legal, ethical or other constraints affecting how this database may be shared. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The database has been shared with the Environment Agency (SW) and Flood Forecasting Centre. |
| URL | http://ceg-fepsys.ncl.ac.uk/outputs/archer_search/index.html |
| Title | Gridded estimates of hourly areal rainfall for Great Britain 1990-2016 [CEH-GEAR1hr] v2. |
| Description | Lewis, E.; Quinn, N.; Blenkinsop, S.; Fowler, H.J.; Freer, J.; Tanguy, M.; Hitt, O.; Coxon, G.; Bates, P.; Woods, R.; Fry, M.; Chevuturi, A.; Swain, O.; White, S.M. 2022. Gridded estimates of hourly areal rainfall for Great Britain 1990-2016 [CEH-GEAR1hr] v2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/fc9423d6-3d54-467f-bb2b-fc7357a3941f |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Lewis, E.; Quinn, N.; Blenkinsop, S.; Fowler, H.J.; Freer, J.; Tanguy, M.; Hitt, O.; Coxon, G.; Bates, P.; Woods, R.; Fry, M.; Chevuturi, A.; Swain, O.; White, S.M. 2022. Gridded estimates of hourly areal rainfall for Great Britain 1990-2016 [CEH-GEAR1hr] v2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/fc9423d6-3d54-467f-bb2b-fc7357a3941f |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5285/fc9423d6-3d54-467f-bb2b-fc7357a3941f |
| Title | Hourly gridded 1km rainfall dataset for UK |
| Description | 1km gridded precipitation data developed using 1900 gauge records and disaggregating CEH gear daily dataset |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None so far |
| Title | Hourly rainfall dataset for UK |
| Description | Hourly quality controlled precipitation dataset assembled for the UK |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Title | Sequences of Orthorectified Images of the Water Surface of Two Rivers: River Sheaf (Sheffield, UK), and River Calder (Todmorden, UK) |
| Description | This data set contains sequences of orthorectified images of the free surface of two rivers: River Sheaf, Sheffield, United Kingdom (Latitude: 53.373056° Longitude: -1.463913° (WGS 84)), recorded between January 2019 and February 2020; River Calder, Todmorden, United Kingdom (Latitude: 53.716198° Longitude: -2.097028°), recorded between 6 and 13 October 2020. The images are extracted from videos of the water surface also included in the data set. They are complemented by Matlab files containing the corresponding average space-time Fourier spectra. Each measurement is associated with the corresponding measurement of the river depth and estimates of the discharge. Please refer to Documentation.pdf for further details. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6542673 |
| Description | Eleanor Starkey PhD |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Department | School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sinatra has collaborated with a PhD project (Eleanor/Geoff) which is separately funded by NERC (NE/L501748/1) and Tyne Rivers Trust (who were funded by Defra's Catchment Restoration Funds project). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This has funded fieldwork equipment and fieldwork activities within the Haltwhistle Burn catchment (Northumberland) - a rapid response catchment with a community at risk of flooding. Datasets (which cover a number of flash flood events over 2014 and 2015) have been shared with the Sinatra modelling team. The FloAT team also have access to Haltwhistle's telemetry system (rainfall and river level) as a result. |
| Impact | • Sinatra website - flash flood event in the Haltwhistle Burn catchment (30th April 2014) http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/flooding/haltwhistle-burn-catchment-april-and-may-2014-flash-flood-events/ • Social media - raise the public's awareness ahead of potential flood events & encourage them to share their flood related observations using Twitter e.g. https://twitter.com/HaltwhistleBurn/status/631750206212734976 • Social media / Haltwhistle Burn website - shared citizen science flood observations for the Haltwhistle Burn catchment on Flickr. http://research.ncl.ac.uk/haltwhistleburn/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/114248420@N03/albums • Starkey, E. and Parkin, G. (2015) 'Community Involvement in UK Catchment Management'. Foundation for Water Research. Available at: http://www.fwr.org/Catchment/frr0021.pdf. (includes flash flooding & the Haltwhistle Burn catchment) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Met office |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Post-doc Steven Chan located at Met Office working directly within Regional Climate Change team led by Lizzie Kendon |
| Collaborator Contribution | Computing time, data storage, staff time for supervision etc |
| Impact | Many outputs - all listed under relevant sections |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Prof Fowler leads GEWEX cross-cut |
| Organisation | Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Prof Fowler leads the GEWEX cross-cut on sub-daily precipitation extremes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are part of the cross-cut which is developing a global dataset and publishing on this |
| Impact | Westra et al. (2014) paper |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | SEPA |
| Organisation | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Perks and Russell visited Mike Cranston at the Scottish Flood forecasting centre at SEPA in Perth to discuss rapid response catchments in Scotland and recent historic FFIR. |
| Collaborator Contribution | TBC |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Title | kOmega - a Matlab script to estimate river discharge remotely based on water surface dynamics |
| Description | kOmega is a Matlab script to calculate the average flow velocity and water depth of rivers and open-channel flows from sequences of images of the water surface recorded with a camera. The analysis is based on the method described in Dolcetti et al., 2022, Using noncontact measurement of water surface dynamics to estimate river discharge, Water Resources Research, 58 (9), e2022WR032829. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR032829. The script computes the frequency-wavenumber spectra of the input set of images, and runs an optimisation routine to compare the measurements with the theoretical dispersion relation of water waves and to identify the set of flow parameters that provide the best fit with the measured data. The method allows the estimation of the average flow velocity without requiring the presence of artificial tracers. It implements a robust analytical model of the water surface dynamics, therefore the accuracy is not undermined by the presence of gravity waves (including standing/stationary waves). The method is best suited for the analysis of videos or sets of images where surface deformations such as gravity waves are clearly visible, although it can also be applied in the absence of visible waves in the presence of artificial or natural floating tracers with suitable density. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7998890 |
| Description | 12th International Conference on Hydroinformatics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Liang Q, Xia X, Hou J (2016) Catchment-scale high-resolution flash flood simulation using the GPU-based technology. The 12th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2016). Songdo Convensia, Incheon, Korea, August 21 - 26, 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 15th International Symposium on Geo-disaster prevention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Xilin Xia gave a presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 1st RMetS Climate Forum |
| 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 | Fowler, H.J. 2019. Water Cycle Risks talk. 1st RMetS Climate Forum, London, 4th June 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 2-day integration workshop in Morpeth |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Parkin led a 2-day integration workshop in Morpeth in Sept 2016, including project team members from Franc and Sinatra, and representatives from industry, government, and local communities (JBA consultancy, Environment Agency, Northumberland County Council, Northumbrian Water, Northumberland Community Flood Partnership, Morpeth Flood Action Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 37th IAHR World Congress in August 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Xilin Xia gave a presentation at the 37th IAHR World Congress in August 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | AGU session convener |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Perks was primary convenor for a session entitled "Flash Floods: Advances in Monitoring, Modeling and Integrated Management", at the 2015 American Geophysical Union conference. This session was co-organised with colleagues from Hull University (Chris Skinner), Zhejiang University (Qihua Ran) and Tsinghua University (Xudong Fu). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Alyth community engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Perks, Russell and Large met with several members of the Alyth community to get testimony of the impacts of the FFIR event that impacted them. Met with Russell Stewart (Flood Engineer) of Perth and Kinross Council in Alyth to discuss the flooding. Conversations with members of Perth and Kinross Council (Peter Dickson, Russell Stewart, Gavin Bissett) discussing on-going work in Alyth in response to the floods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Attendance at 1st ClimEx Symposium, Munich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attendance at symposium to discuss extreme rainfall 'Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Events: Risks and Perspectives for Water Management'. Discussions with project partners from Germany and Canada, with follow up discussions on interactions via Skype. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC Science and Environment page ''Storm chasers: the scientists trying to combat flooding" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with BBC about storm chasing work by the FLOAT team and community engagement and flood management work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34087255 |
| Description | BHS 2014 Conference talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion and raised awareness of research. NA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Better Ways of Managing Surface Water Sprint, Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival 2019 |
| 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 | Better Ways of Managing Surface Water Sprint, Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival 2019 - gave talk on Global intensification in observed short-duration rainfall extremes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Blog post on hourly rainfall extremes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A review of the latest science on changes in rainfall extremes for the Carbon Brief website and what this might mean for flood risk Links: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-hourly-rainfall-extremes-are-changing-in-a-warming-climate Outcome: the article was published to coincide with COP26. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-hourly-rainfall-extremes-are-changing-in-a-warming-climat... |
| Description | Briefing document on extreme rainfall and flooding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A review of the evidence for changes in rainfall extremes and links to flooding was undertaken with a report aimed at being accessible to journalists and interested members of the public in the run up to COP26. Links: https://sciencebrief.org/topics/climate-change-science/extreme-rainfall-and-climate-change and https://sciencebrief.org/uploads/reviews/ScienceBrief_Review_RAINFALL_Jun2021.pdf Outcome: The report has been published as part of the Tyndall Centre series of Climate Briefs and was featured in The i Newspaper (https://inews.co.uk/news/climate-change-flash-flooding-cities-1037926) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sciencebrief.org/topics/climate-change-science/extreme-rainfall-and-climate-change |
| Description | Briefing document on global water issues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to a report by Sainsbury's and PwC UK on addressing global water issues Year: 2021 A review of global water issues and how they might be addressed. Links: https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/sustainability/plan-for-better/our-stories/2021/water%20report Outcome: the report was launched and published as part of their COP26 programme and features a series of recommendations to help address current water issues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/sustainability/plan-for-better/our-stories/2021/water%20report |
| Description | British Society for Geomorphology Annual Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Perks, Large and Russell presented a poster entitled 'Developing non-contact hydrometric monitoring networks' at the British Society for Geomorphology Annual Symposium, Special Joint Session with the British Hydrological Society on the Hydrogeomorphology of Flood Risk, Plymouth, 7-9 Sept 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CEH visit for KE proposal |
| 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 | Initial handover meeting with CEH under the KE proposal which will facilitate update and dissemination of the gridded dataset. Code (for quality control and gridding of gauge data) from Newcastle and Bristol was handed over to CEH with initial testing taking place. A follow-up visit will be undertaken when appropriate to derive maximum benefit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CEH wallingford seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J., 2015. Benefits of very high resolution (km-scale) models for understanding changes in heavy precipitation. Invited seminar. CEH Wallingford, 10th June 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | China-UK Workshop on Catchment Systems Management and Flood Resilience talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hou, J.: GPU Accelerated Shallow Water Flow and Transport Model (GAST) and Its Applications in Solving Hydrologic, Hydraulic and Geomorphologic Problems. China-UK Workshop on Catchment Systems Management and Flood Resilience,CSMFR 2015 (June 2015) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Citizen Science workshops |
| 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 | Series of regional workshop events, PI as initiator/main organisor: "From Catchment to Coasts: a north-east networking event on public engagement with environmental research". Attendees included regulators, Rivers Trusts (3rd sector organisations), who were closely interested and engaged, and have subsequently become directly involved in research-related activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Climate impacts on social housing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave verbal evidence to a social housing tenants' climate jury on social housing organised by the Northern Housing Association. Gave a presentation to the jury on the topic of the impacts of climate change, providing evidence on the scale of the potential impacts. A question session followed with the submission of further questions to which I responded. The purpose of the activity was to provide evidence to the jury to derive their own recommendations for the social housing sector. These were subsequently published in a report. Outcome: A written report was produced by the NHA providing a set of recommendations for how the sector can address the causes and consequences of climate change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.northern-consortium.org.uk/the-social-housing-tenants-climate-jury/ |
| Description | Convened conference session at EGU General Assembly 2017 |
| 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 | Convened a session of six talks on intense rainfall observations, datasets and processes. Led to an invitation to participate in the 1st ClimEx Symposium in Germany, engaging with researchers from Bavaria and Canada, including the Canadian environment agency. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/orals/22780 |
| Description | Cumbria Flood Partnership Knowledge-sharing event "Plan, Prepare, Respond, Recover Workshop" on 8 March |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ran a workshop - talked at Cumbria Flood Partnership Knowledge-sharing event "Plan, Prepare, Respond, Recover Workshop" on 8 March |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cumbria Flood Partnership Patterdale Pilot project engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attendance at Patterdale Flood Group meetings, interviews with members of the local community to collect flood evidence. Newcastle University are listed as a partner in the Cumbria Flood Partnership Patterdale Pilot project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cumbria Flood Partnership meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andy Large, Andy Russell and Matt Perks attended the " Cumbria Flood Partnership - Upstream Mitigation and Catchment Management - update meeting" on the 9th Feb 2016 where they met with members of the EA, LDNPA and Rivers Trusts to discuss ways of mitigating against future floods in the region, with an emphasis on natural flood management and approaches focused in the headwaters of catchments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Cumbria Flood Partnership meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Russell, Large and Perks attended the "Cumbria Flood Partnership - Upstream mitigation and catchment management" meeting (9th February 2016) to discuss current and future work being undertaken in the Cumbrian catchments and to establish links with communities and agencies. Among those in attendance were representatives from the EA, DEFRA, Natural England, local Rivers Trust, Forestry Commission, local Council and Wildlife Trust. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Dragon Savic delivered a keynote, Albert Chen gave a presentation, and Xilin Xia gave a presentation, and at the UK-China Urban flood and Sponge City Workshop at Shenzhen, China in June 2017 |
| 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 | Dragon Savic delivered a keynote, Albert Chen gave a presentation, and Xilin Xia gave a presentation, and at the UK-China Urban flood and Sponge City Workshop at Shenzhen, China in June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | EA meeting (York) |
| 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 | A meeting was held in York in Dec 2016 between Parkin and EA staff involved in national community-related programmes, including their Crowd-Sourcing project, to liaise on common interests. Outcomes from this meeting were: a short-list of proposed communities/flood groups; understanding of issues related to centralised storage/access of community-sourced data on different platforms; an invitation for Parkin to attend the next Crowd-Sourcing project meeting; and agreement for EA staff to have involvement in community workshops (at their request). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | EGU Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Perks, Russell & Large. Advances in flash flood monitoring using UAVs. EGU Conference presentation (April 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | EGU conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Russell, Perks, Large, et al. Fluvial geomorphological response along the upland sediment cascade during the record-breaking December 2015 floods, Cumbria, UK. EGU Conference presentation (April 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Environmental Rights: Law, Science and Policy Symposium, |
| 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 | Fowler, H.J. 2019. talk on Climate and Water Cycle Risks. Environmental Rights: Law, Science and Policy Symposium, King's College London, 24th June 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FCERM meeting Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hayley Fowler gave FCERM meeting Keynote, 29th June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Flood Resilience workshop, An Giang, Vietnam |
| 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 | A workshop was organised by Newcastle University and An Giang University to discuss social and economic issues associated with pluvial, fluvial and coastal flooding, and the modelling of such events. The workshop was attended by local to national policy makers, university research staff and members of the local communities. The aim of the workshop was to inform participants of advances in modelling technologies that have the potential to reduce socio-economic losses. Highlights of the workshop were televised on local TV. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://rcrd.agu.edu.vn/?q=en/node/328 |
| Description | FloodExpo in London in October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Albert Chen delivered a keynote talk and participated in expert debate panel regarding flood modelling and forecasting at FloodExpo in London in October 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | GEWEX flood workshop - keynote. 22/09/23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GEWEX flood workshop - keynote. Online workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | GEWEX meeting, Exeter, 20-22 June 2016. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GEWEX meeting, Exeter, 20-22 June 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GEWEX(GHP) meeting in France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GEWEX(GHP) annual panel meeting in Paris, France. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GPU Accelerated Shallow Water Flow and Transport Model (GAST) used in Flood Modelling talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Hou, J.:GPU Accelerated Shallow Water Flow and Transport Model (GAST) used in Flood Modelling,FFIR (Flooding from Intense Rainfall) Integration Workshop, Exeter University, UK (April 2015). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Glenridding meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 2 visits to Glenridding have established and built relationships with the local community, the Patterdale Flood Group, and the EA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | HaltwhistleBurn website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Web site set up to advertise project and to enhance community engagement around flash flooding in Haltwhistle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| URL | http://research.ncl.ac.uk/haltwhistleburn/ |
| Description | HiPIMS - The high performance integrated modelling system talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Smith, LS: HiPIMS - The high performance integrated modelling system, FFIR (Flooding from Intense Rainfall) Integration Workshop, Exeter University, UK (April 2015). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | IAHS MOXXI meeting in Rome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Perks presented on the 'Variability in flow state during a flash flood through process reconstruction using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)' at the IAHS MOXXI meeting in Rome (November 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | ITV border news - Fowler (11.1.16) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Live interview on the cumbrian floods Dec 2016 on ITV border news |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Intense rain, flash floods and walls of water talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Intense rain, flash floods and walls of water talk to NE Met Soc society by David Archer on 11 March 2016 in Durham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | International Association of Hydrogeologists Annual Symposium 2018 |
| 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 | Keynote presentation and paper, Parkin, G. 2018, "The Citizen Hydroscientist - Benefits and Challenges for Hydrogeology", International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) Irish annual conference http://www.iah-ireland.org/programme_IAH2018.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.iah-ireland.org/programme_IAH2018.pdf |
| Description | International Conference in Numerical Methods for shallow water equations and related models in December 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Qiuhua Liang gave presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | International conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Delivered a talk titled 'Global intensification in observed short-duration rainfall extremes', primarily focussed on changes in historical rainfall (including UK SINATRA data) but also on use of the convection permitting model simulations run in CONVEX. The talk resulted in discussions with researchers from Maynooth University, providing our perspectives as data users for their provision of climate services, and on the possibility of acquiring additional sub-hourly rainfall data from the United States for future analyses. Further discussions took place with members from the meteorological community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Into the Blue event in Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ran stall at Into the blue event examining flash flooding. Lots of interest from audience, schools, media etc. Won award as part of this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Into the blue event (manchester) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Perks attended the NERC Into the blue event in Manchester (24th - 27th October) to showcase the Flash Flood! Game which was runner up in the publics vote for their favourite exhibit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Invited talk at RainGain Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Smith LS, Liang Q (2014) A flexible hydrodynamic modelling framework for GPUs and CPUs: Application to urban flood events, RainGain International Workshop on Urban Pluvial Flood Modelling. Provoked questions and discussion. Increased awareness of research among peers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.raingain.eu/sites/default/files/rg_workshop_programme.pdf |
| Description | Jessore, Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to visit the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and attend a workshop in Jessore, hosted by the Bangladesh Water Development Board. Participants shared their flood experiences, including socioeconomic impacts, emergency responses and advances in flood prediction. The purpose of the workshop was knowledge exchange. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J. 2019. Keynote: Global intensification in observed short-duration rainfall extremes. WETWeather, Gregynog, Wales, 29th April - 1st May 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Large - BBC interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Large featured on BBC Radio Newcastle discussing the recent floods in the Tyne Valley (8 Dec 15) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Large talk - International Society for River Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Large delivered a paper referencing the Derwent flood geomorphology work at the 4th Biennial Symposium of the International Society for River Science, Wisconsin LaCrosse, 23-28 August. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Large, Perks, and Russell attended a meeting with flood action group members of the Patterdale Parish |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Large, Perks, and Russell attended a meeting in Glenridding (Cumbria) with local councillors and flood action group members of the Patterdale Parish (20th December 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Media interviews - Perks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Perks was repeat interviewed for BBC and ITV local news in July 2015. The activities of FLoAT and SINATRA were discussed (23 July). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Meet the EA Flood and Coastal Risk Management Team - workshop 4/12/23 |
| 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 | Meet the EA Flood and Coastal Risk Management Team - workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Meeting with FFC/EA |
| 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 | Meeting with the EA-SW/FFC with regard to the work performed on flood chronologies, RoR and critical storm durations for the South West, funded under a Knowledge Exchange program. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Louise Parry (SEPA) to discuss potential monitoring locations in Scotland |
| 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 | Meeting with Louise Parry (SEPA) to discuss potential monitoring locations in Scotland (17th October & 31st October 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Meeting with SEPA |
| 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 | Visit from flood forecast centre (SEPA) lead - Dr Louise Parry - to talk about migration of methods developed in SINATRA across to SEPA procedures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Meetings with Mike Cranston (RAB Consultants) and Andrew Black (Dundee University) |
| 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 | Meetings with Mike Cranston (RAB Consultants) and Andrew Black (Dundee University) to discuss research synergies in relation to the work to be conducted in ST3.1. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | National Flood Hydrology Road Map Governance Board Meeting |
| 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 | National Flood Hydrology Road Map Governance Board Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | New Scientist article Jan 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with New Scientist magazine for understanding climate change role in recent UK floods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22930554-700-understanding-climate-changes-role-in-the-uks-re... |
| Description | Newcastle Climate Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk on climate science and emergency at Newcastle Climate Summit in Feb 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Ny Alesund symposium 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Ny-Ålesund Symposium is a high-level event that brings together 45 global leaders from politics, science and business. This year's symposium theme is "Navigating Climate Risk", and is hosted by the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.ny-aalesundsymposium.no/2018/About_the_symposium_2018.shtml |
| Description | Poster presented |
| 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 | A poster was presented on 'Development and application of a UK sub-daily rainfall dataset' at the Royal Met. Soc. conference on 'High Impact Weather and Climate' in Manchester, 6-8 July, 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at NCAS flash flooding forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ongoing forum on flash flooding for UK researchers to share information etc. New contacts made |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation to Newcastle Central Labour Party |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented a talk on the potential local impacts of climate change and what sort of action is need to prepare/increase resilience. Description: A short talk on how climate change projections are obtained and what they tell us about how our local climate might change and the adaptations we might need to make. Generated a discussion particularly in relation to local policy implications for local and national government. Outcome: provided guidance for people on how the public might better be engaged in discussing this topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Prof hayley fowler talk at GEWEX bi-annual conference, Canmore, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GEWEX bi-annual conference, Canmore, Canada |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Public Lecture in Newcastle on 4th Dec 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public Lecture in Newcastle on 4th Dec 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Public Talk: The extreme future of extreme weather |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J. 2019. Public Talk: The extreme future of extreme weather. Pint of Science Festival, Newcastle, 21st May 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Q Liang attended and gave a presentation at 16th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction, 27 - 31 August, Strasbourg, France |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | • Q Liang attended and gave a presentation at 16th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction, 27 - 31 August, Strasbourg, France |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Royal Met Soc Durham presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | David archer talk at Durham Royal Met Soc meeting -March 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Royal Meteorological Society, RMETS Yorkshire Group talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J. 2019. The reality of climate change: increasing extreme weather hazards. Royal Meteorological Society, RMETS Yorkshire Group, University of Leeds, 16th October 2019. public talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Royal Society of Chemical Industry talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J. 2019. Public Lecture: Climate Change: Increasing Extreme Weather and Impacts on Water Resources. Royal Society of Chemical Industry, London, 26th June 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Russell - BBC interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Russell featured on BBC Radio Cumbria discussing the recent floods in Cumbria (16 Dec 15) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Sinatra updates provided to the Northumberland Community Flooding Partnership group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sinatra updates provided to the Northumberland Community Flooding Partnership group at regular intervals in evening meetings - dissemination activity trying to move science into practise by Geoff Parkin and Eleanor Starkey |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Sinatra updates provided to the public via the Haltwhistle River Watch Group / Flood Wardens |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sinatra updates provided to the public via the Haltwhistle River Watch Group / Flood Wardens in an evening meeting of the local community by Eleanor Starkey |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Sinatra website blog - flash flood event in the Haltwhistle Burn catchment (30th April 2014) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sinatra website blog - flash flood event in the Haltwhistle Burn catchment (30th April 2014) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/flooding/haltwhistle-burn-catchment-april-and-may-2014-flash-flood-even... |
| Description | Sniffer - Climate Services: Developing the UK Community 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 | Invited to this workshop to discuss the 'climate services' community and the need to develop partnerships or networks to better deliver and engage in climate services initiatives in the UK and Europe. Consideration and discussion was given of how can we inform UK and European delivery of climate services and identify research needs, knowledge gaps and potential innovations in climate services. This was hosted by Sniffer, a registered charity delivering knowledge-based solutions to resilience and sustainability issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Social media - raise the public's awareness ahead of potential flood events & encourage them to share their flood related observations using Twitter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Social media - raise the public's awareness ahead of potential flood events & encourage them to share their flood related observations using Twitter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/HaltwhistleBurn/status/631750206212734976 |
| Description | Social media / Haltwhistle Burn website - shared citizen science flood observations for the Haltwhistle Burn catchment on Flickr. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Social media / Haltwhistle Burn website - shared citizen science flood observations for the Haltwhistle Burn catchment on Flickr. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| URL | https://www.flickr.com/photos/114248420@N03/albums |
| Description | Stephen blenkinsop AGU: Understanding Rainfall Extremes Across Temporal Scales: From Process Understanding to Practical Application, Washington DC, 10-14 Dec, 2018 (poster) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | AGU: Understanding Rainfall Extremes Across Temporal Scales: From Process Understanding to Practical Application, Washington DC, 10-14 Dec, 2018 (poster) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Surface water flood forecasting and real-time communication symposium - workshop talk - 10/01/24 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Surface water flood forecasting and real-time communication symposium - workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | TORRO Spring Conference: 'Intense rainfall, flash floods and walls of water' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk [David Archer] at the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) Spring Conference. Discussed the potential for rapid rates of river rise, which pose a threat to river users. Also presented chronologies of past flooding, highlighting a new online database that is open to members of the public. The database allows users to explore incidences of flooding in their area, increasing flood risk knowledge. (See item under new databases section.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk at Royal Society of Edinburgh meeting on flooding and climate change |
| 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 | Event at Royal Society of Edinburgh on climate change and flood risk - talks by various experts and debate in the evening. Attended by public and practitioners alike (over 100 attending) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk at workshop (KNMI, Netherlands) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Small workshop on convective rainfall extremes at KNMI, Netherlands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk to Climate Change Committee (Newcastle City Council) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk on climate science to Newcastle City Council Climate Change Committee in Jan 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk to Estates Business Group, Alnwick Castle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J., 2015. Future-proofing for climate change impacts. Invited seminar to the Estates Business Group, Alnwick Castle, 2nd July 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | UK Workshop on Uncertainty and Flood Forecasting |
| 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 | UK Workshop on Uncertainty and Flood Forecasting Attended by national and international researchers [including NHRI, Nanjing]. Greg O'Donnell presented work on the value of historical flood chronologies, and catchment susceptibility and flash floods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit to National Taiwan University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chen visited National Taiwan University, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, and Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute on 11 and 14 Nov 2016 to discuss potential collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Visit to Xi'an University of Technology in China |
| 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 | 22 May 2016 Prof Q Liang visited Xi'an University of Technology in China and gave a seminar entitled "Catchment Systems Management in the Information Age". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | WEFTEC 2017 Annual Technical Exhibition And Conference, Chicago, 30th September - 4th October, 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gill, E., Dale, M., Kendon, E., Fowler, H. 2017: Predicting how collection systems will operate in the 2050s in response to changing rainfall patterns. WEFTEC 2017 Annual Technical Exhibition And Conference, Chicago, 30th September - 4th October, 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Wansbeck SINATRA meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Wansbeck meeting with local members of the Wansbeck flood protection team in Morpeth around understanding flooding and flood defence in the town |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Workshop in Nepal on Flash Floods and Glacial Lake Outbursts. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Workshop in Nepal on Flash Floods and Glacial Lake Outbursts. Attended by NGOs, practitioners, university researchers, community members, and the Nepalese Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. Greg O'Donnell presented work on flash floods in the UK, including the use of rainfall in warning. [Event was reported by local media] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop on Advances in Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamics talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Hou, J.:GPU accelerated shallow water flow and transport model (GAST) and its applications in solving hydrologic, hydraulic and geomorphologic problems. Workshop on Advances in Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamics, Sheffield University, UK (March 2015). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | World Climate Research Programme Workshop on Weather and Climate Extremes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion on grand challenge on extremes for WCRP with aims of addressing problems associated with global observational data including availability, access, quality and use of appropriate, relevant indices. Working groups were set up to address a number of themes and international collaboration established. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Xilin Xia gave a presentation at the 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics in July 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • Xilin Xia gave a presentation at the 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics in July 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | attended BIRS Workshop 16w5092 Uncertainty Modeling in the Analysis of Weather, Climate and Hydrological Extremes and gave invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | talk at scientific workshop in Canada (maths and stats in climate). about 40 attendees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | dukem of northumberland talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J., 2015. What can we expect with climate change? Invited seminar to Duke of Northumberland Estate, Alnwick Castle, 5th November 2014. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | engagement with channel 4 about winter storms 2013-2014 programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | discussion with channel 4 about their programme on winter storms 2013-2014 and what to include and other experts to contact Not known yet |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | invited talk at the 14th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Liang gave an invited talk at the 14th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction, Chengdu, China, 10th - 13th October |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | keynote Atmospheric Science Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J. 2019. Keynote: Global intensification in observed short-duration rainfall extremes. Atmospheric Science Conference 2019; Weather, Climate and Air Quality, Birmingham, 2nd - 3rd July, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | keynote lecture at the Second Conference of Global Chinese Scholars on Hydrodynamics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Liang gave a keynote lecture at the Second Conference of Global Chinese Scholars on Hydrodynamics (CCSH'2016). Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, 11 - 14 November, 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | talk expert meeting on extreme weather |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Fowler, H.J., 2015. Benefits of very high resolution (km-scale) climate models for understanding changes in heavy precipitation. Expert meeting on "Weather and Climate Related Extreme Events", European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, 18-19 March, 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | • Albert Chen looked into the flash flood event in Coverack in July (https://twitter.com/AlbertChen_CWS/status/888890843125428226), which has gained the interested from Mott MacDonald on behalf of EA for asking further collaboration. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | • Albert Chen looked into the flash flood event in Coverack in July (https://twitter.com/AlbertChen_CWS/status/888890843125428226), which has gained the interested from Mott MacDonald on behalf of EA for asking further collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | • BBC Weather World documentary |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Weather World documentary (August/September 2015) [national/international impact]. Interviewed and presented in programme on natural flood management work and community engagement work in Haltwhistle as part of SINATRA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | • Q Liang gave the following invited seminar "Flood Risk Management in the New Technology Age", 17 April 2018, Hebei University of Engineering, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Flood Risk Management in the New Technology Age", 17 April 2018, Hebei University of Engineering, China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | • Q Liang gave the following invited seminar "Flood Risk Management in the New Technology Age", 28 September 2018, Zhengzhou University, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Flood Risk Management in the New Technology Age", 28 September 2018, Zhengzhou University, China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | • Q Liang gave the following invited seminar "Managing Flood Risk from Intense Rainfall: A UK Perspective", 18 December 2018, Xi'an University of Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Managing Flood Risk from Intense Rainfall: A UK Perspective", 18 December 2018, Xi'an University of Technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |