Global leader

in flood and

climate risk

• Bates, P.,
• Wing, O.,
• Savage, J.,
• Quinn, N.,
• Sampson, C.,
• Neal, J.,
• Smith, A.

New research from Bates et al. describes the creation of a transparent flood model for the UK that simulates pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood risks for 10 different return periods.

• Gutenson, J.,
• Tavakoly, A.,
• Islam, M.,
• Wing, O.,
• Lehman, W.,
• Hamilton, C.,
• Wahl, M.,
• Massey, T.

New research from Gutenson, J. L. and others, including Fathom’s Chief Research Officer Dr Oliver Wing, compares the estimated impact and exposure to flooding generated by different event-based flood inundation maps. 

• Olcese, G.,
• Bates, P.,
• Neal, J.,
• Sampson, C.,
• Wing, O.,
• Quinn, N.,
• Beck, H.

An investigation into the effectiveness of using synthetic gauge data from global hydrological models as input data for global stochastic modeling.

• Bates, P.

Who floods? A commentary on the uneven burden of urban flooding in Nature Sustainability.

• Andreadis, K.,
• Wing, O.,
• Colven, E.,
• Gleason, C.,
• Bates, P.,
• Brown, C.

Are floodplains becoming more built on over time? Using new global satellite data, Kostas Andreadis in this paper shows floodplain urbanization has almost doubled since 1985.

• Smiley, K.,
• Noy, I.,
• Wehner, M.,
• Frame, D.,
• Sampson, C.,
• Wing, O.

This research uses attribution science to examine the influence that climate change had on the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.