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SUMMARY:Flood inundation prediction - Professor Paul Bates\, Uni of Bristo
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DTSTART:20201119T113000Z
DTEND:20201119T123000Z
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CONTACT:Catherine Pearson
DESCRIPTION:Flooding is one of the most costly natural disasters and every
  year affects hundreds of millions of people and causes billions of dollar
 s in losses\, and the most damaging events often impact multiple countries
  simultaneously.  Despite this\, the reality is that all flood impacts are
  felt locally and occur at the level of individual properties.  The ultima
 te challenge in flood modelling therefore is how to provide detailed and s
 kilful hazard and risk predictions at the scale of individual buildings ov
 er whole continents or even the whole globe.  This talk considers the flui
 d dynamics of floodplain inundation\, and the key process that models need
  in order to make skilful predictions.  It shows how careful model develop
 ment and validation can be used to meet the above challenge.
LOCATION:Open Plan Area\, BP Institute\, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
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