Working with Natural Processes - National NFM Opportunity Mapping (high runoff soils)

Mar to Aug 2017

To develop two new Open Access opportunity map layers for the Environment Agency Working with Natural Processes (WwNP) programme, namely on 1/ floodplain reconnection opportunities, and 2/ high runoff areas suited to tree planting. The latter Lancaster component is based on ideas in Chappell and Ternan (1992 Hydrol Process), and evaluates a new model for predicting areas of 'slowly permeable soils' using high resolution British Geological Survey drift data (kindly made available to the project).

Funding sources

Environment Agency via JBA subcontract (EAA7508)

Investigators

Barry Hankin (Overall PI at JBA), Ian Craigen (JBA), Nick A Chappell (Lancaster PI), Trevor Page.

Project Publications

Beven, K., Page, T., Hankin, B., Smith, P., Kretzschmar, A. Mindham, D. and Chappell, N. 2022. Deciding on fitness-for-purpose - of models and of natural flood management. Hydrological Processes 36: e14752. view online, EIDC access to the data used in this paper. This paper used Runoff Attenuation Data (RAF) data generated by Hankin et al. (2017, 2018).

Hankin, B., Chappell, N.A., Page, T.J.C., Kipling, K., Whitling, M. and Burgess-Gamble, L. 2018. Mapping the potential for Working with Natural Processes - technical report. SC150005/R6. Environment Agency, Bristol. 77pp view online or view report (pdf).

Hankin, B., Chappell, N.A., Page, T.J.C., Kipling, K., Whitling, M. and Burgess-Gamble, L. 2017. Mapping the potential for Working with Natural Processes - user guide. SC150005/R3. Environment Agency, Bristol. 92pp view online or view report (pdf).