2nd IMA International Conference on Flood Risk Assessment
Date: Tuesday 4 - Wednesday 5 September 2007
Location: University of Plymouth
Recent flood events such as occurred at Boscastle in the UK, have highlighted the difficulties in forecasting extreme localised rainfall. The widespread and catastrophic flooding following the Indonesian earthquake in December 2004 heightened the global public awareness of the limitations of existing flood defence infrastructure and flood warning systems. The recent prolonged flooding that has occurred across the UK this summer is an example of the importance of understanding the causes of flooding and the steps that can be taken to reduce its impacts.
The conference provided a forum at which engineers, mathematicians and statisticians could meet to exchange views on this important technical area. The emphasis was on new developments in the mathematical and statistical techniques applicable for assessing flood risk.
Verbal Presentations
Improving the performance of fast flood inundation models by incorporating results from very high resolution simulations (pdf)
S. Néelz, J. Hall and G. Pender
Offshore Sandbank Morphodynamics Modelling with Sea Level Rise
G. Jacoub, P.K. Stansby, J-M. Hervouet, C. Villaret and M. Benoit
Modified method of characteristics for the shallow water equations
H. Elhanafy and G.J.M. Copeland
The Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events (CoFEE) Project
J.J. Williams, L.S. Esteves, G. Lymbery, A. Plater, A.J. Souza and A. Worsley
Wave overtopping from focussed wave groups: experiments and modelling
P.K. Stansby, A.C. Hunt, R. Xu, P.H. Taylor, A.G.L. Borthwick, T. Feng and D.R. Laurence
Artificial Submerged Reefs: A solution for Erosion Problems along Alexandria Coastline, Egypt?
A. Soliman and D.E. Reeve
Assessing sewer flood risk
J. Ryu, D. Butler and C. Makropoulos
River Eden/Carlisle flood forecast modelling (pdf)
Y. Chen
Were the 26 December 2004 Sumatran Earthquake and tsunami tidally triggered? (pdf)
R.G.M. Crockett, G.K. Gillmore, P.S. Phillips and D.D. Gilbertson
Bivariate models for extremes of significant wave height and period. An application to the Dutch Coast
P. Galiatsatou and P. Prinos
A simulation method for flood risk variables (pdf)
Y. Cai, B. Gouldby, P. Dunning and P. Hawkes
The joint probability of waves and high sea levels in coastal defence
D. Hames and D.E. Reeve
Statistical modelling of flood risk at ungauged sites
T.R. Kjeldsen, D.A. Jones and A.C. Bayliss
Automated threshold selection methods for coastal design
P. Thompson, D.E. Reeve, J. Stander and Y. Cai
The use of Canonical Correlation Analysis to determine the relationship between beach profiles, waves and storm surges in the southeastern coast of England, UK
J.M. Horrillo-Carabello and D.E. Reeve
Development of Estuary Morphological Models
J.M. Huthnance, G. Karunarathna, A. Lane, A.J. Manning, P. Norton, D.E. Reeve, J. Spearman, R.L. Soulsby, I.H. Townend and A. Wright
Statistical modelling of uncertainties in flood wave propagation using adjoint sensitivity analysis
H. Elhanafy, G.J.M. Copeland and I.Y. Gejadze
Uncertainty on coastal flood risk calculations, and how to deal with it in coastal management. Case of the Belgian coastal zone
T. Verwaest, W. Vanneuville, P. Peeters, T. Mertens and P. De Wolf
Uncertainty Propagation in Flood Forecasting: The FRMRC Thames Collocation
B.W. Golding
Statistical Modelling of Flood Events
W.J. Mantje, W.M.J. Luxemburg, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder, B.I. Gartsman and H.H.G. Savenije
