Drivers of future urban flood risk

EC O'Donnell, CR Thorne - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Managing urban flood risk is a key global challenge of the twenty-first century. Drivers of
future UK flood risk were identified and assessed by the Flood Foresight project in 2002 …

The significance of Gilbert F. White's 1945 paper 'Human adjustment to floods' in the development of risk and hazard management

N Macdonald, D Chester, H Sangster… - Progress in …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Few publications may claim to have transcended the original field in which they were written,
by shaping a wide range of research areas and philosophies. In this short paper we reflect …

How much Northern Hemisphere precipitation is associated with extratropical cyclones?

MK Hawcroft, LC Shaffrey, KI Hodges… - Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Extratropical cyclones are often associated with heavy precipitation events and can have
major socio‐economic impacts. This study investigates how much of the total precipitation in …

Rainfall and water yield in Macizo del Caroig, Eastern Iberian Peninsula. Event runoff at plot scale during a rare flash flood at the Barranco de Benacancil

A Cerdà, A Novara, P Dlapa… - Cuadernos de …, 2021 - riunet.upv.es
[ES]. Lasinundacionesson consecuencia de lluvias extremas. Aunque la generación de
escorrentía superficial es el origen de la descarga, la investigación de inundaciones …

Exploring agritourism entrepreneurship in the UK

C Phelan, R Sharpley - Tourism Planning & Development, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Farm-based recreation or agritourism is increasingly seen as a diversification strategy to
promote a more diverse and sustainable rural economy and to protect farming incomes …

North Atlantic Oscillation amplifies orographic precipitation and river flow in upland Britain

TP Burt, NJK Howden - Water Resources Research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale climatic variability in the North Atlantic region modulates seasonal rainfall and
river flow across the British Isles. We show how the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) …

Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley …

AJ Howard, D Knight, T Coulthard… - Journal of Cultural …, 2016 - Elsevier
Future climate change is likely to pose significant challenges for heritage management,
especially in landscape settings, such as river valleys as the magnitude, intensity and nature …

Impact of increasing resolution and a warmer climate on extreme weather from Northern Hemisphere extratropical cyclones

AJ Champion, KI Hodges, LO Bengtsson… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The effect of a warmer climate on the properties of extratropical cyclones is investigated
using simulations of the ECHAM5 global climate model at resolutions of T213 (60 km) and …

Can climate models represent the precipitation associated with extratropical cyclones?

MK Hawcroft, LC Shaffrey, KI Hodges, HF Dacre - Climate Dynamics, 2016 - Springer
Extratropical cyclones produce the majority of precipitation in many regions of the
extratropics. This study evaluates the ability of a climate model, HiGEM, to reproduce the …

Sensitivity of orographic precipitation enhancement to horizontal resolution in the operational Met Office Weather forecasts

SA Smith, SB Vosper, PR Field - Meteorological Applications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rain gauge observations show that when averaged over a large number of cases of frontal
systems passing over the UK, strong orographic rain enhancement occurs on the lee slopes …