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Intelligent sensors gear up for real-time flood monitoring
An intelligent flood monitoring system that could give advance warning of the type of rapid flood that engulfed the UK Cornish village of Boscastle in 2004, is under test in the Yorkshire Dales. view more (2006-10-19)
OPERATIONAL NOTE - NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST - Launch of FloodRanger - the new flood simulation computer game
When: 11:30am, Thursday 19th February 2004 Where: FutureFocus, DTI, 1 Victoria Street, SW1H 0ET Timetable: Video explaining the game and how it works - 6mins Time to play the game - 20mins Q&A - 5-10mins FloodRanger is a flood simulator that puts you in... view more... (2004-02-17)
Sequence matters in droughts and floods
When extremes of drought and flood come in rapid succession, the extent of damage to vegetation may depend in part on the sequence of those events, according to a new study published in The American Naturalist. view more (2009-01-08)
New Glacier Outburst Flood in Iceland
On July 9th researchers from Keele and Staffordshire Universities and the Icelandic Meteorological Office identified the source and drainage routes of a glacier outburst flood or 'jokulhlaup' which is currently draining from the western margin of Vatnajokull ice cap. The team are currently part of an Earthwatch funded project based at Skaftafell... view more... (2002-07-09)
New Simulator Teaches Flood Management
A new device to raise the profile of the risks and effects of flooding around the UK was launched by the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir David King today. FloodRanger is a flood simulator that puts the player in control of a fictional area of the UK coast over a 100 year period. The aim is to defend cities, towns and the countryside in a... view more... (2004-02-19)
£4M for research into predicting and preventing flooding
A Research consortium is being set up to tackle the problem of flooding in the UK. Our changing climate is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and severity of flooding. To meet these challenges a research consortium is being set up to tackle the problem of flooding in the UK. Funding for the consortium will come from the Swindon based... view more... (2002-08-15)
Mapping a glacial path of destruction
The dangerous power of glacial outburst floods—or jokulhlaups—will be easier to predict thanks to new models developed by a Leeds researcher and presented at the International Glaciological Society symposium in Iceland this Friday (June 23). view more (2006-06-20)
Lower Midwest braces for flood onslaught
Residents of the central and southern Midwest are crossing their fingers, saying their prayers, planning evacuations, and in some cases filling sandbags in preparation for the excessive water ravishing communities in Iowa and Wisconsin. view more (2008-06-17)
Hurricane Katrina: Phone Home
Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation. view more (2009-07-07)
Predicting an answer to the threat of flooding
The latest advances in computer flood modeling and animation that could help to improve the way we protect the UK's towns and cities from flooding will be highlighted at this year's BA Festival of Science in Norwich. view more (2006-09-08)
Superfloods hit the capital @ London `Catastrophes` conference
Flooding of the world`s coastal lowlands has the potential to generate major future catastrophes. The melting of the great ice sheets in North America and Asia at the end of the last ice age caused extreme flood events that changed global climate and played an important role in human settlement and migration. These `superfloods` are probably the... view more... (2002-08-17)
Heavy Rainfall on the Increase
With at least one episode of serious flooding already this autumn, new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows that one of the main contributors to flooding, three or more days of heavy rainfall in a row, is on the increase. view more (2001-11-19)
Floods policy is more than a knee-jerk response to crisis
One billion people, a sixth of the world's population, currently live in the path of potential major flood disasters, according to a recent report from the UN University in Tokyo. In Britain, dramatic flooding of rivers has become a regular feature of evening news programmes. And each time major flooding occurs in the UK, the public demands an... view more... (2004-06-22)
Evacuation no option for Randstad flood
A flood in the southern Randstad will claim thousands of victims. And evacuating the area would only save precious few lives, TU Delft researcher Bas Jonkman states in the latest edition of Delft Outlook (Delft Integraal). view more (2006-12-07)
Pan-European Flood Alert System (EFAS)
The Directors of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)signed a Cooperation Agreement providing the JRC with real-time access to ECMWF weather forecast products for use in the European Flood Alert System (EFAS). Both organisations will work together to develop a... view more... (2004-08-31)
Household levels of mold following Hurricane Katrina surpass some agricultural environments
In a study assessing flood clean-up procedures in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, a team of scientists led by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, report that household levels of mold and bacterial endotoxins in three single-family homes were so considerable that they equaled or surpassed those in waste-... view more... (2006-09-25)
Volcanoes, asteroids and mass extinctions
Neither massive volcanic eruptions nor extraterrestrial impacts are sufficiently powerful on their own to cause mass extinctions of life on Earth, research by University of Leicester geologists suggests. Instead, both events coincidentally occurring together may be required to cause the worst mass extinctions. In the last 300 million years, life... view more... (2004-05-17)
Journey back through time to help manage river floods
Statistically, there is little likelihood of anybody experiencing a major river flood whose average recurrence interval is one hundred or one thousand years. Predicting and designing of such events involves going back in time, three or four centuries, by scrutinising records of severe flooding. Joint researches by Cemagref hydrologist Michel Lang... view more... (2003-06-11)
Before the Flood - Increasing Flood Problems and How to Manage Them
River flooding is a serious issue for society, and Scotland has its own particular set of challenges in the years ahead. That's the message from Professor Garry Pender, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the School of the Built Environment at Heriot-Watt University in a public lecture on 15 May '03. The incidence of floods worldwide has... view more... (2003-05-15)
River-shelf interactions during Spring floods in the coastal Beaufort Sea
Multi-year study provides insights to possible future responses to environmental change in the arctic. view more (2006-12-06)
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