By Dr. Rob Thompson (University of Reading) 22nd September 2016 Last week, Reading was hit by a very memorable storm in the early evening of Thursday the 15th. Then over…Read More >

By Dr. Albert Chen (University of Exeter) 21st January 2016 The FFIR-SINATRA Researcher Dr Albert Chen at the Centre for Water Systems (CWS), University of Exeter, has participated in FloodHack…Read More >

By David Flack  (University of Reading) 18th January 2016 In my previous blog I talked about the different convective regimes that flash floods occur in, and was in the early stages of…Read More >

By Dr Geoff Parkin  (Newcastle University) 14th December 2015 The Sinatra Flood Action Team (FloAT) has been in action following the extensive flooding from Storm Desmond and the rain that both preceded…Read More >

By Prof. Peter Clark (University of Reading) 10th August 2015 How do we measure progress? We often talk about a ‘quantum-leap’ (ironically, the smallest change known to physics), or a…Read More >

By Susana Ochoa Rodríguez (Imperial College London) 23rd July 2015 As noted in several previous articles and as the readers of this blog are well aware of, surface water flooding (SWF)…Read More >

By Richard Maxey (Flood Forecasting and Warning Scottish Environment Protection Agency) 10th July 2015 This blog entry is repeated from the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service, the original can be found…Read More >

By Dr. Chris Skinner (University of Hull) 16th June 2015Images from Dr Lila Collet of Heriot-Watt university On the 27th May I headed up to Edinburgh for the FCERM.net Annual Assembly….Read More >

By Prof. Andy Russell (Newcastle University, School of Geography) 28th May 2015  – @Floodpower http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/andy.russell Accurate prediction of flood inundation area and hydraulics requires knowledge of channel characteristics such as cross-sectional…Read More >