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New research into flood impacts in the South of England
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2012/jun/12_98.shtml[font face=Serif]News release
[font size=5]New research into flood impacts in the South of England[/font]
Ref: 12/98
15 June 2012
[font size=3]Research from the University of Southampton has developed and applied a method for understanding the effects and impacts of coastal flooding across the South coast, which could contribute to more effective flood forecasting, defence design and land use planning.
By using observations from real coastal floods and numerical models, researchers simulated coastal floods within the Solent to approximate the consequences of synthetic flood events, using land and property as example measures of potential flood impacts from these hypothetical events. This is differentiated from existing information available in the Solent, by considering realistic defence responses and failures (overflow, outflanking, wave overtopping, and full breaching) and processes of water spreading across the floodplain.
PhD Researcher Matt Wadey, who worked on the study, explains: “The model allows a regional simulation to be made in 15 minutes across the entire Solent on a standard desktop PC. It also makes rare use of data sets on real events, such as the 10 March 2008 floods, to demonstrate the validity of the results.”
Results were generated across a range of wave and still water level conditions over the timescale of one tidal cycle, to enable a view of present-day and 21st century impacts, and indicates the accompanying uncertainties from variations in what may be considered to be ‘extreme’ water level or wave events at any given time.
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[font size=5]New research into flood impacts in the South of England[/font]
Ref: 12/98
15 June 2012
[font size=3]Research from the University of Southampton has developed and applied a method for understanding the effects and impacts of coastal flooding across the South coast, which could contribute to more effective flood forecasting, defence design and land use planning.
By using observations from real coastal floods and numerical models, researchers simulated coastal floods within the Solent to approximate the consequences of synthetic flood events, using land and property as example measures of potential flood impacts from these hypothetical events. This is differentiated from existing information available in the Solent, by considering realistic defence responses and failures (overflow, outflanking, wave overtopping, and full breaching) and processes of water spreading across the floodplain.
PhD Researcher Matt Wadey, who worked on the study, explains: “The model allows a regional simulation to be made in 15 minutes across the entire Solent on a standard desktop PC. It also makes rare use of data sets on real events, such as the 10 March 2008 floods, to demonstrate the validity of the results.”
Results were generated across a range of wave and still water level conditions over the timescale of one tidal cycle, to enable a view of present-day and 21st century impacts, and indicates the accompanying uncertainties from variations in what may be considered to be ‘extreme’ water level or wave events at any given time.
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