Defra/Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Defence R&D Programme

Quantified analysis of the probability of flooding in

This paper explores and quantifies the likely flood impacts in the Thames estuary for a number of plausible, but extreme sea level rise (SLR) scenarios. The collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) could cause global mean sea level to rise by 5-6m in 100 years. The worst case SLR scenario combined with the 1,000 storm surge event would result in 1000km of land being inundated. This ar...

Remote sensing of intertidal morphological change in Morecambe Bay , 3 U . K . , between 1991 and 2007

15 16 Tidal Flats are important examples of extensive areas of natural environment that remain 17 relatively unaffected by man. Monitoring of tidal flats is required for a variety of 18 purposes. Remote sensing has become an established technique for the measurement of 19 topography over tidal flats. A further requirement is to measure topographic changes in 20 order to measure sediment budgets...

Condition monitoring and asset management of Flood and Coastal Defence systems

Explorer Current and future climate - and air pollution - mediated impacts on human health

Background: We describe a project to quantify the burden of heat and ozone on mortality in the UK, both for the present-day and under future emission scenarios. Methods: Mortality burdens attributable to heat and ozone exposure are estimated by combination of climate-chemistry modelling and epidemiological risk assessment. Weather forecasting models (WRF) are used to simulate the driving meteor...

Flood Risk from Extreme Events

There is increasing evidence that more frequent flooding resulting from increases in the frequency and intensity of storms are likely to be one consequence of anthropogenic climate change in many parts of the world including the United Kingdom. Flooding in the UK is currently a major and costly environmental hazard with annual damage from floods of around £1 billion at present levels of protect...