A new benchmark

in global flood

mapping

• 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. 

• Slingo, J.,
• Bates, P.,
• Bauer, P.,
• Belcher, S.,
• Palmer, T.,
• Stephens, G.,
• Stevens, B.,
• Stocker, T.,
• Teutsch, G.

In this paper, researchers state that an improved climate model with higher detail and more precise information is needed urgently  to enable us to make reliable decisions around climate adaptation.

• Pregnolato, M.,
• Winter, A.,
• Mascarenas, D.,
• Sen, A.,
• Bates, P.,
• Motley, M.

This paper establishes new modelling approaches for the design and assessment of transportation and water systems with the aim to understand the consequences of flooding on urban networks.

• Mitchell, D.,
• Hawker, L.,
• Savage, J.,
• Bingham, R.,
• Lord, N.,
• Khan, J.,
• Bates, P.,
• Durand, F.,
• Hassan, A.,
• Huq, S.,
• Islam, A.,
• Krien, Y.,
• Neal, J.,
• Sampson, C.,
• Smith, A.,
• Testut, L.

In 2020 Cyclone Amphan made landfall in the Bay of Bengal and was the first super tropical cyclonic storm to occur in the area in over 20 years. This paper explores what would happen if this event were to occur in the future, asking: would the risks associated with it change?