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Water research in Geographical SciencesAn overview
Professor Paul Bates
2 What we do
• Computer modelling of
hydrological processes and
hazards
• Experimental investigation
of hydrology and sediment
transport processes
• Developing methods to use
satellite and airborne data in
hydrological models
3 CHASM
• Combined
Hydrology And
Stability Model
• Used to predict
landslide risk
• Focus of major
projects in St. Lucia,
Hong Kong,
Malaysia etc
4 ESTEL
• 2D and 3D finite element model of
groundwater flow and pollutant
transport
• Development funded by Electricité
de France
• Used in France by the nuclear
industry for the design of a deep
nuclear storage site.
5 LISFLOOD-FP
• 2D flood inundation model
• Predicts dynamic flooding
along river valley, estuaries
and coasts
• Scales ranging from urban
areas to major continental
rivers
6
Study area
Example application. Amazon River, Brazil
7
• State-of-the-art
experimental facility
• Research on hydrological
and sediment-transport
processes
8 MoSSaiC
• Management of Slope
Stability in Communities
• Development of cost
effective protection against
landslide risk for Caribbean
communities
• Funded by Organisation of
East Caribbean States and
USAID
9 WatER
• New satellite proposal to
NASA led by CNES and
JPL
• UoB chairing the science
working group
• WatER will yield images of
water surface elevation with
global repeat coverage to
centimetric accuracy
10 Other activities
• Water chemistry, with a focus
on low temperature
environments
• Karst hydrology and chemistry– Including groundwater
modelling
• Atmosphere and Earth system
modelling– Including climate change
studies