Flood Risk from Extreme Events (FREE)

Informations

Total budget

13,526,140 EUR

Start date

1/1/2007

URL

http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/

Fundings

-

End date

9/30/2011

Description

Programme overview The Flood Risk from Extreme Events (FREE) Programme used research to help build flood prediction models so that flooding events can be identified minutes, weeks and even decades in advance. The programme used environmental science to investigate the physical processes involved in generating extreme events, and to identify what causes and propagates floods. The aim was to help forecast and quantify flood risk, and inform our society about the likely effects of climate change. Background & objectives Climate change will probably bring more frequent and intense storms to the UK, in turn bringing more floods. In recent years flood damage has cost the UK about £1bn each year, so it is essential that we improve our ability to forecast, quantify and manage flood risks, and mitigate the effects of climate variability and change. The FREE programme brought researchers from the hydrological, meteorological, terrestrial and coastal oceanography communities together in an integrated research programme for the first time.

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