Recent developments in operational flood forecasting in England, Wales and Scotland

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-22

  Werner, Micha ^a,b   Cranston, Michael ^c   Harrison, Tim ^d   Whitfield, Doug ^d   Schellekens, Jaap ^b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood forecasting; Forecasting systems; Models and data

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS;

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLOOD FORECASTING; FORECASTING SYSTEM; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES; SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCIES; WALES AND SCOTLAND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CATCHMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLOOD FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

ENGLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 69249221495     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.124     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Anderson JL. 1997. Development of a flood warning system for the River Tay catchment. In title typejournalFlood Warnings: Issues and Practice in Total System Design/title, Handmer J (ed.). Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University: London, UK; 47-51.
2. Anderson JL, Burns JC, Curran JC, Fox IA, Goody NP, Inglis T, Sargent RJ. 1992. A review of flood warning schemes on mainland Scotland. Joint Meeting of the Scottish Branch of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management. ICE Scottish Hydrological Group and Scottish Hydraulics Study Group: Perth; 6, 31 March 1992.
3. Bell VA, Kay AL, Jones RG, Moore RJ. 2007. Development of a high resolution grid-based river flow model for use with regional climate model output. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 11(1): 532-549.
4. Bowler NE, Arribas A, Mylne KR, Robertson KB, Beare SE. 2008. The MOGREPS short-range ensemble prediction system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 134(632): 703-722.
5. Bye P, Horner M. 1998. Easter Floods 1998: Report by the Independent Review Team to the Board of the Environment Agency, Vol. 1. Environment Agency: Bristol, 30 September.
6. Cadman DE, Price DA, Butts MB. 2007. Flood forecasting in the Anglian region: user-driven development towards forecasting flood risk. In Flood Risk Management in Europe, Begum S, Stive MJF, Hall JW. (eds). Springer: the Netherlands; 385-399.
7. Carsell KM, Pingel ND, Ford DT. 2004. Quantifying the benefit of a flood warning system. Natural Hazards Review 5: 31-140.
8. Cluckie I. 2000. Fluvial flood forecasting. Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management 14: 270-276.
9. Cranston M, Werner M, Janssen A, Hollebrandse F, Lardet P, Oxbrow J, Piedra M. 2007. Flood Early Warning System (FEWS) Scotland: an example of real time system and forecasting model development and delivery best practice. DEFRA Conference on Flood and Coastal Management, Paper 02-3, York.
10. Dobson C, Davies GP. 1990. Integrated real time data retrieval and flood forecasting using conceptual models. In International Conference on River Flood Hydraulics, White WR (ed.). John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, UK; 21-30.
11. EU. 2007. Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks. Official Journal of the European Communities L288: 27-34.
12. Faichney D. 2003. Recent developments in flood warning in Scotland. Floods in Scotland: Volume of Extended Abstracts. ICE Scottish Hydrological Group: Perth, 25 April 2003.
13. Haggett C. 1998. An integrated approach to flood forecasting and warning in England and wales. Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management 12: 425-432.
14. Handmer J. 2001. Improving flood warnings in Europe: a research and policy agenda. Environmental Hazards 3: 19-28.
15. Hawkes PJ, Tozer NP, Scott A, Flowerdew J, Mylne K, Horsburgh K. 2008. Probabilistic coastal flood forecasting. FLOODrisk 2008. Keble College: Oxford, 30 September - 2 October 2008.
16. Haywood J, Hatton R. 2001. Environment Agency current practice and planned developments. In Flood Forecasting: What does the Current Research Offer the Practitioner? Lees M, Walsh P (eds). British Hydrological Society: London, BHS Occasional Paper 12: 64-69, ISBN: 09848540990.
17. Hu K, Wotherspoon C. 2007. Numerical modelling in coastal flood forecasting and warning in England and Wales. In Flood Risk Management in Europe, Begum S, Stive MJF, Hall JW. (eds). Springer: the Netherlands; 417-429.
18. Kaya Y, Stewart M, Becker M. 2005. Flood forecasting and warning in the Firth of Clyde, UK. Natural Hazards 36(1-2): 257-271.
19. Moore RJ, Cole SJ, Bell VA, Jones DA. 2006. Issues in flood forecasting: ungauged basins, extreme floods and uncertainty. In Frontiers in Flood Research, Tchiguirinskaia I, Thein KNN, Hubert P (eds). UNESCO: IAHS Publication 305: Paris; 103-122. 8th Kovacs Colloquium, June/July 2006.
20. Moore RJ, Jones DA, Bird PB, Cottingham MC. 1990. A basin-wide flow forecasting system for real time flood warning, river control and water management. In International Conference on River Flood Hydraulics, White WR (ed.). John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, UK; pp. 21-30.
21. Pappenberger P, Matgen P, Beven KJ, Henry J-B, Pfister L, de Fraipont P. 2007. Influence of uncertain boundary conditions and model structure on flood inundation predictions. Advances in Water Resources 29(10): 1430-1449.
22. Parker D, Fordham M. 1996. Evaluation of flood forecasting, warning and response systems in the European union. Water Resources Management 10: 279-302.
23. Penning-Rowsell E, Tunstall S, Tapsell S, Parker D. 2000. The benefits of flood warnings: real but elusive, and politically significant. Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management 14: 7-14.
24. Pitt M. 2008. The Pitt Review: Learning Lessons from the 2007 Floods. Cabinet Office: London. (http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/thepittreview.aspx Last accessed 14-11-2008).
25. Roberts NM, Cole SJ, Forbes RM, Moore RJ, Boswell D. 2008. Use of high-resolution NWP rainfall and river flow forecasts for advance warning of the Carlisle flood, north-west England. Meteorological Applications. In press. DOI: 10.1002/met.94.
26. Scottish Government. 2008. Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Bill. SP Bill 15. Session 3 (2008).
27. Tunstall SM, Johnson CL, Penning Rowsell EC. 2004. Flood hazard management in england and wales: from land drainage to flood risk management. World Congress on Natural Disaster Mitigation, New Delhi, 19-22 February 2004.
28. Werner MGF, van Dijk M, Schellekens J. 2004. DELFT-FEWS: an open shell flood forecasting system. In 6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Liong SY, Phoon K, Babovic V (eds). World Scientific Publishing Company: Singapore; 1205-1212.
29. Werner M, Whitfield D. 2007. On model integration in operational flood forecasting. Hydrological Processes 21: 1519-1521, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6726.