Research project: Flood MEMORY: Multi-Event Modelling Of Risk & recoverY
The clustering of storms and flood events.
The clustering of storms and flood events.
It is increasingly recognised that the spatial and temporal dimensions of flood events needs to be better understood.
This work is part of a large multidisciplinary research project which aims to analyse situations where consecutive storms and floods may strike before defences or people have recovered (the 'memory period'). The outcomes will be to identify critical vulnerabilities, better allocate resources for protection and recovery and improve flood resilience.
At Southampton we are firstly conducting a UK wide case study of storm surge and sea level clustering, and collaborating with researchers at Swansea University on a more detailed case study.
The first part of this analysis is to take a UK-wide view of the spatial and temporal clustering of sea level extremes. This relies upon recorded sea level time-series from tide gauges. The UK is served by a network of particularly high quality tide gauges at 45 sites 43 of which are currently active. These are managed by the National Tide and Sea Level Facility (NTSLF), owned and funded by the Environment Agency for England and Wales, and data is quality controlled and archived by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). The objectives are to:
The second part of the work involves statistical analysis of past/future extremes in sea-level and wave cluster events in Liverpool Bay using:
This will progress to the provision of cluster time-series of extreme sea level and wave events as boundary conditions for the XBEACH model, for the Sefton Coast.
Southampton and NOC Staff
Dr Ivan Haigh
(Southampton PI) - University of Southampton
Dr Matthew Wadey
(PDRA) - University of Southampton
Dr Jenny Brown
- National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool
Other staff involved
Professor C Kilsby
(lead PI), - Newcastle University
Dr J Lamond
- UWE, Bristol
Professor C Beck
- Queen Mary, University of London
Dr R Briganti
- University of Nottingham
Dr H Haynes
- Heriot-Watt University
Dr H Karunarathna
- Swansea University
Dr Q Liang
- Newcastle University
Dr D Pokrajac
- University of Aberdeen
Professor S White
- Cranfield University, Bedford
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This project links to the goals of Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) and the UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Strategy (FCERM). Refer to: http://www.lwec.org.uk